The policy agenda on crime and criminal justice is moving fast. PERU undertakes research and evaluation that strengthens the evidence-base about what works.
The recently established Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) has announced that PERU, with our colleagues at the Manchester Centre for Youth Studies (MCYS), has been successful in its bid to join their new…
Chris Fox delivered a presentation to HM Inspectorate of Probation's Summer School for its Assistant Inspectors. His presentation looked at different models of innovation, particularly social innovation,…
Kirstine Szifris has been appointed the vice-Chair of Prisoner Learning Academic Network (PLAN). This network is hosted by the Prisoners’ Education Trust and aims to develop a multi-disciplinary…
In his inaugural lecture in March, PERU’s Visiting Professor Sir Martin Narey reflected on the links between care, custody, alcohol and child neglect, and argued that the “…children’s…
Kirstine Szifris will today give a talk at the Heyman Centre for Humanities, Columbia University, New York. Her talk will focus on her work researching philosophy education in prisons discussing how educational…
PERU will today launch the Reducing Reoffending website, at a Ministry of Justice 'Insights 19' seminar being hosted by Manchester Metropolitan University. The website is a repository of evidence…
PERU’s Kevin Wong will appear on BBC Radio Manchester today to talk about The Manchester CRIME and JUSTICE Film Festival. This month-long FREE festival brings together crime fiction to illuminate…
As human beings, we tend to be drawn to simple ideas and simple solutions, something which Nobel prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman describes as ‘cognitive ease’. We prefer ideas and…
PERU has completed a review of technology in probation supervision that is published today by HM Inspectorate of Probation. The full report is now available and the accompanying news release by the Inspectorate…
PERU’s Kirstine Szifris has been invited back to the Prison Research Centre, Cambridge University to lead a seminar today on Philosophy Education in Prisons. She previously completed her PhD at the…
The British Journal of Community Justice website is going live to our readers today. It’s a special issue on women offenders. This re-launch of the journal under ManMet stewardship…
During a private visit to Vietnam over the Christmas period PERU's Dr Peter Traynor was invited to address the Vietnamese National Police Academy in Hanoi. The academy is formally a university…
PERU’s Kevin Wong is proposing a distinctive model for the voluntary sector to engage with people with convictions built on: reciprocity, reliability, consistency and emotional pleasure. He has elaborated…
PERU’s Kirstine Szifris has had an article on boredom published by a leading philosophy magazine, How the Light Gets In. She discusses the importance of occupying the mind, drawing on prison sociology…
Complex commissioning for complex needs using partnerships, individuals assets and lived experience to build fulfilling lives. This free seminar will examine what makes a good hate crime reporting service…
