Press

Our Director, Phil Bowen, writes for the Telegraph on the imminent Sentencing Review, emphasising that the shift needed to move cases from an overloaded prison system into our overloaded probation & community system can only be done safely and effectively with investment of political will, patience and funding.

Lucy Slade, Policy Officer at the Centre for Justice Innovation, writes for the The Justice Gap on our strategic policy paper, Systems Shift: A ten-point plan to reform the criminal justice system, which sets out the steps a new government should take to stop our justice system from overloading.

The Telegraph covers our strategic policy paper, Systems Shift: A ten-point plan to reform the criminal justice system, which sets out the steps a new government should take to stop our justice system from overloading.

The Law Gazette covers our strategic policy paper, Systems Shift: A ten-point plan to reform the criminal justice system, which sets out the steps a new government should take to stop our justice system from overloading.

Diginomica reports on a Westminster legal policy forum debating the use of AI in criminal justice for which our director, Phil Bowen, sat on the panel. The article details much of his contributions and references our 2018 report, Just Technology. 

Social Work Today covers our research report, Exploring women’s experience of drug and alcohol treatment in the West Midlands, jointly undertaken with Staffordshire University.

The Law Society Gazette reports on 15 years of Family Drug and Alcohol Courts and the parliamentary event we held to celebrate this, highlighting the success of this approach and the need for its secure and long-term funding.

The Law Society Gazette covers the event we held in the House of Lords to celebrate 15 years of Family Drug and Alcohol Courts.

The Guardian covers our research report, Exploring women’s experience of drug and alcohol treatment in the West Midlands, jointly undertaken with Staffordshire University.

Police Oracle reports on a briefing by the Centre for Justice Innovation which highlights the damaging impact of criminal justice system contact on children with special education needs and disabilities.