Cyber crime and harm - Russell Webster
A new (8 October 2024) report from the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) on Cyber crime and harm is based on a horizon scan consultation of researchers revealed significant concern about the expanding landscape of cyber crime and its harm, including:. entities gaining unauthorised access to digital devices or networks, for example to commit fraud or collect and leverage ...
Russell Webster keeps you up to date with drugs and crime
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The Week in Justice - the latest news & views. - Russell Webster
Nov 3, 2024 · The Week in Justice is a short email digest of the latest news and views on criminal justice matters in the UK (mainly England & Wales). It shares interactive headlines on new policy announcements, research, statistics or news allowing readers to catch up with the week’s developments and click on any story that interests them for further information.
What is the One HMPPS programme? - Russell Webster
Oct 6, 2022 · The One HMPPS programme. We have launched the One HMPPS programme with the aim of refocusing the agency on our core operational business making sure our Probation and Prison frontline staff have the right support to be able to deliver the very best services. We are in the very early stages of design but we are exploring how closer regional ...
10 New Prison Facts From The Winter 2023/4 Bromley Briefing
On 30 September 2023 there were 3,570 women in prison in England and Wales — a 12% increase on last year. Women entered prison on 5,286 occasions in the year to June 2023 — either on remand or to serve a sentence — up 7% on the previous 12 months. Many women remanded into custody don’t go on to receive a custodial sentence.
How does our prison system compare? - Russell Webster
Apr 7, 2022 · The English & Welsh prison system ranks very high on suicide rate and very low on escape rates. Interestingly, England and Wales has a lower percentage of women prisoners (4% of overall prison population) compared to the European median (4.7%). Scotland and Northern Ireland have a much lower proportion of people sentenced for drug offences (7.1 ...
Psychologically Informed Planned Environments - Russell Webster
Yesterday (13 October 2022) HMPPS published an Evaluation of Psychologically Informed Planned Environments (PIPEs). The evaluation, undertaken by a team from the Centre of Psychiatry, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, assessed the first five years of PIPEs operation in both prison …
Everything you need to know about secure units - Russell Webster
Oct 8, 2018 · There are 60 secure units for young people in Great Britain: 28 hospitals in England and one in Wales (a mixture of high dependency units (HDUs), psychiatric intensive care units (PICUs), low and medium secure units) 14 SCHs in England, five in Scotland, one in Wales. Three STCs, all in England. Four YOIs for under 18s in England, three in ...
Everything you need to know about non-custodial sentences
Feb 3, 2020 · Cost and resources. Non-custodial sentences cost less than custodial sentences. For example, in 2017/18, the average cost of custody was £37,543 per prisoner (not including costs after release, such as probation). The cost for a community order in 2016/17 (the latest available data) was between £2,500–£4,000 per person.
10 principles for complex needs work - Russell Webster
Here are the 10 principles for effective complex needs services: ‘Someone on your side’: Opportunity to build consistent, positive and trusting relationships. Assertive and persistent: An assertive and persistent approach to engagement that does not give up on people. Continuous and consistent support over a prolonged period, responding ...