Useful Links: Criminal Justice Groups
Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
A charity whose mission is to inspire enduring change by promoting understanding of social harm, the centrality of social justice and the limits of criminal justice.
Criminal Justice Alliance
A coalition of 57 organisations committed to improving the criminal justice system.
Criminal Justice Alliance ‘Restorative Justice: Time for Action’
A new briefing from the Criminal Justice Alliance.
HM Prison Service
Information about Prisons in England and Wales, prison life, family support and advice, job vacancies and resources.
Matrix Knowledge
An organisation with a twenty year international, national and local track record of supporting some of the biggest policy decisions by rapidly utilising the best available evidence.
Office for Criminal Justice Reform
OCJR helps to deliver an improved service for the public by supporting criminal justice agencies.
Out of Trouble
A Prison Reform Trust campaign, working to reduce the number of children and young people imprisoned in the UK.
Prison Reform Trust
The Prison Reform Trust aims to create a just, humane and effective penal system.
Reform Research Trust
An independent, charitable, non-party think tank whose mission is to set out a better way to deliver public services and economic prosperity.
Rethinking Crime and Punishment
The programme aimed to increase public and judicial engagement with community based sentences in order to promote confidence in their use as an alternative to prison.
Revolving Doors
A charity working across England to change systems and improve services for people with multiple problems including poor mental health who are in repeat contact with the criminal justice system.
Smart Justice
A crime reduction campaign, aimed at widening the public debate on crime and punishment and increase confidence in community-based solutions to crime.
Suzy Lamplugh Trust
Aims to raise awareness of the importance of personal safety and to provide solutions that effect change in order to help people to avoid violence and aggression and live safer, more confident lives.
The Howard League for Penal Reform
The oldest penal reform charity in the UK. They campaign for less crime, safer communities and fewer people in prison.
The Howard League for Penal Reform 2011 Awards
Winners of the 2011 Community Programmes Awards by category.
The Howard League for Penal Reform Short Term Sentences
Prison easier than short term sentences say prisoners.
Voluntary Sector Cuts
A new collaborative project which maps intelligence about voluntary groups experiencing reductions in public sector funding.