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Chapter 26

Links from the book:

www.homeoffice.gov.uk
The Home Office website continues to provide a wealth of information and statistics about crime and criminal justice policy, practice, and research. It also provides links to many other relevant websites.

www.inspectorates.homeoffice.gov.uk
This website contains all the prison and probation inspectors’ thematic reports.

www.justice.gov.uk
The new Ministry of Justice website now has responsibility for information, research, and statistics relating to offender management (prisons and probation).

www.noms.justice.gov.uk
The new National Offender Management website hosted by the Ministry of Justice.

www.probation.homeoffice.gov.uk
The National Probation Service website provides useful information about various aspects of policy and practice relating to the management of offenders in the community.

Further links of interest:

United Kingdom

Parole Board
www.paroleboard.gov.uk/
Provides information about the Boards which help to run the Service in each probation area.

Probations Boards:
www.probationboards.co.uk
Provides information about the Boards which help to run the Service in each probation area.

Community Justice National Training Organisation
www.cjnto.org.uk
Works with employers to raise skills across the Community Justice Sector.

Rethinking Crime and Punishment
www.rethinking.org.uk
A project concerned with researching and shaping public perceptions of sentencing with a focus on reducing the number of prison sentences.

Restorative Justice Consortium
www.restorativejustice.org.uk
Set up to promote the use of restorative justice in schools, the community, prisons, the criminal justice system, the workplace and any other situation where conflict arises.

Restorative Justice Online:
www.restorativejustice.org/
Provides information on all aspects of restorative justice.

Restorative Justice Ireland Network:
www.extern.org/restorative/
Set up to promote restorative justice in preference to prison sentences the site has a useful overview of what restorative justice is and its aims.

NACRO:
www.nacro.org.uk/
A crime reduction charity that works to give ex-offenders, disadvantaged people and deprived communities the help they need to build a better future. The site has a useful body of web links to related sites.

Probation In London:
www.probation-london.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=183
The probation service in London deals with offenders from first court appearances to completion of sentences. Their aim is to reduce re-offending and to protect the public.

Probation Studies Unit, Oxford University:
www.crim.ox.ac.uk/PSU/probu.htm
The Probation Studies Unit aims to bring together information on probation policy and practice and related developments and services both in the United Kingdom and elsewhere and to disseminate critical appraisals of these developments.

Centre for Sentencing Research:
www.law.strath.ac.uk/csr/
Aims to develop, disseminate and promote the study of sentencing, punishment and society. The Centre performs its own research, distributes The Sentencing Observer which contains news about sentencing research, and also organises conferences.

Commonwealth

Centre for Restorative Justice, Simon Fraser University:
www.sfu.ca/crj/
Works with other Canadian institutes to promote restorative justice as a form of sentencing. The site has a useful online library.

United States

The Reinventing Probation Council:
www.manhattan-institute.org
Has links to full text of recent reports.

American Probation & Parole Association:
www.appa-net.org/
Homepage of the US probation service. The site has information and documents on all aspects of US probation work and provides a useful comparative tool.

Community Justice Portal:
www.cjp.org.uk/welcome
Provides an information-sharing network that promotes discussion on all aspects of community justice work.

National Center on Institutions and Alternatives:
www.ncianet.org/
Provides information on the facilitation of rehabilitative sentences in preference to prison sentences. Provides a useful comparative tool.

International

Conference Europeenne de Probation
www.cep-probation.org
Works to promote the social inclusion of offenders through community sanctions and measures such as probation, community service, mediation and conciliation.

Victim Offender Mediation Association:
www.voma.org/
Victim Offender Mediation Association (VOMA), an international membership association, supports and assists people and communities working at restorative models of justice.