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Working with Young People to Prevent Serious Violence: The Voices of Practitioners with Lived Experience
Working with Young People to Prevent Serious Violence: The Voices of Practitioners with Lived Experience In April this year, Human Rights Solidarity convened a roundtable of experienced practitioners from diverse backgrounds and communities. The subject was the prevention of serious youth violence, a challenge so often reduced to the shorthand of ‘knife crime’, a term that can obscure more than it reveals.
Working with Young People to Prevent Serious Violence
Working with Young People to Prevent Serious Violence In April this year, Human Rights Solidarity convened a roundtable of experienced practitioners from diverse backgrounds and communities. The subject was the prevention of serious youth violence, a challenge so often reduced to the shorthand of ‘knife crime’, a term that can obscure more than it reveals.
Evolution of Wind-Generated Shallow-Water Waves in the Framework of a Modified Kadomtsev-Petviashvili Equation
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Labour and Tories unite to resist IPP reform
The case for fundamental reform of Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) has attracted wide support from a coalition of organisations and politicians, leading to significant skirmishes in Parliament last month at the Committee stage of the Government’s Victims and Prisoners Bill. Despite attempts to insert proposals for resentencing in the Bill, both the Government and the Labour Opposition have refused to yield to the reasonable case made for dismantling the IPP in all respects.
How to resolve the IPP crisis for good
Publication This report sets out a five-point plan to resolve the 21-year injustice of the Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence. Described as the “greatest single stain” on the UK’s criminal justice system, by the former Supreme Court Justice, Lord Browne Eaton-Under-Heywood, the IPP sentence was partially abolished in 2012.
Endless sentences ‘can be torture’
There are still 3,000 people serving IPP sentences a decade after they were abolished, while in Scotland and Northern Ireland similar sentences are still handed down. Expert Roger Grimshaw examines their impact What is it like to endure a period of detention because of a risk that you may offend, and not simply because of what you have done?
A death row of sorts
In the case of criminal justice detention, indeterminate detention takes three main forms. An unconvicted individual can be remanded in prison while awaiting trial. Given the current backlog of cases in the criminal courts, an individual can be left languishing in prison awaiting trial for months, in some cases years. Life imprisonment – mandatory in the case of a murder conviction – is the second form of indeterminate criminal justice detention.
Institutional racism in the police: how entrenched has it become?
In 1999 the Macpherson report on the police response to the murder of Stephen Lawrence defined institutional racism as: ...the collective failure of an organisation to provide an appropriate and professional service to people because of their colour, culture or ethnic origin. It can be seen or detected in processes, attitudes and behaviour which amount to discrimination through unwitting prejudice, ignorance thoughtlessness and racist stereotyping which disadvantage minority ethnic people.
Accommodation and offending: What works?
It reviews available literature in order to discover what light can be shed on this association. In OASys, accommodation needs include ‘no fixed abode’, ‘transient’ or ‘unsuitable’ accommodation, lack of ‘permanent’ accommodation and ‘unsuitable location’ (meaning close to criminal associates or potential victims) –clearly a range of problems that are not necessarily connected or similar. This ‘umbrella’ term makes for a fascinating but somewhat unpredictable journey through a disparate terrain.
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