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One of the ways that the criminal justice system has been found to be most effective in helping people to stop offending is through mentoring. ‘Jogging with Jody’ is a short documentary…
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Although the term desistance implies leaving something behind, research has shown that desistance from crime is actually about moving towards something; about becoming something else. The criminal…
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Carlotta was arrested and imprisoned in the United States of America. She now works with offenders and ex-offenders to change their lives through art and cultural interventions. In this video,…
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In this video, Dr Andreas Aresti draws on his own experience of leaving prison to explain how desistance from crime is a complex process made up of many different factors.
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A ‘white-collar crime’ is typically a financially motivated, nonviolent crime committed by business or government professionals, such as bribery, fraud and embezzlement. White collar…
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Research into how and why people stop offending is beginning to shed light on the process of desistance from crime, particularly the role of supervision in facilitating this process. Between 1997…
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Rates of penal incarceration around the world have reached record levels and in England and Wales, where there is the highest prison population in western Europe, prison is clearly the punishment of…
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The Howard League for Penal Reform is the oldest penal reform charity in the UK – and possibly the world. They have played a key role in many major criminal justice reforms, from the abolition…
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Dr Andreas Aresti is a senior lecturer in criminology at the University of Westminster and has first-hand experience of the criminal justice system and prison. Andreas is committed to penal reform…
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How do we know what the experience of imprisonment is really like and how do we separate the reality from the populist representation of the institution? In this video, Dr Cormac Behan explains how…
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