Tag: Research
“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes”
Kevin Wong is Reader in Community Justice and Associate Director, Criminal Justice at the Policy Evaluation and Research Unit (PERU), Manchester Metropolitan University. He is responsible for leading the unit’s work on criminal and community justice and voluntary sector delivery of justice services. He has over 25 years' experience in criminal justice as a researcher, policy adviser, commissioner and practitioner.
Kevin is Co-Editor of the British Journal of Community Justice a member of the Advisory Panel on Probation Learning, Chair of the Criminal Justice Alliance and a trustee of Manchester based charity Back on Track
Developing prison culture through Participatory Action Research: Findings from a new research study
Following up on the previous blog, Dr Rachel Gibson talks us through working with two prisons to develop their culture, using a Participatory Action Research (PAR) approach, and what this research suggests for prisons wanting to use PAR to develop their culture.
What is Evidence-Informed and Evidence-Based Practice, and why it matters
Robin Moore, Head of Research at HM Inspectorate of Probation talks us through how the inspectorate supports use of evidence and research and offers some top tips.
Tackling Language Barriers in the Criminal Justice System
In this guest blog (originally published in 2022) Gill Hunter and Suzanne Smith highlight how best to support both people in the Criminal Justice System who speak English as a second or additional language and the practitioners on the frontline assisting them.