Moving away from criminal behaviour can be fraught with difficulties. Often it can involve
leaving behind old habits, customs, and even friends, while at the same time adopting a new …

This chapter attempts to cover three broad issues with respect to the present‐day position
regarding what is colloquially known as' what works' in the field of criminal justice …

In October 2017, the Queensland Sentencing Advisory Council (QSAC) received a Terms of
Reference from the Attorney-General and Leader of the House to examine community …

Forming part of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's (JRF's) Anti-Poverty Strategy, this review
assessed the evidence base regarding the bi-directional links between homelessness and …

Cost‐effectiveness analyses of health care programs often focus on maximizing health and
ignore nonhealth impacts. Assessing the cost‐effectiveness of public health interventions …

The Prolific and Other Priority Offender (PPO) programme was introduced in 2004 to target
the most prolific and persistent offenders within Community Safety Partnership areas. Based …

This thesis explores primary desistance as a transitional phase between offending and
crime cessation. Recent work has explored desistance within an integrated theoretical …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to outline findings from research into Integrated
Offender Management (IOM), an example of multi-agency working between the police …

Objectives: Drawing upon existing meta-analytic reviews, this paper aims to systematically
review the state of research on the effects of prison-based drug treatment programs on drug …

The authors would like to thank Queensland Corrective Services for sharing the valuable
work of Sydes, Eggins and Mazerolle (2018) on 'what works' in corrections, and the …