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Lecture to spell out how the crime cycle can be broken
A major criminal justice lecture will argue that understanding criminals' behaviour is crucial to breaking cycles of re-offending and starting them on a path towards change.
This 8th Annual Community Justice Portal Public Lecture will be held at Sheffield Hallam University on Thursday 20 May 2010 at 2.30pm.
Fergus McNeill, Professor of Criminology and Social Work at the University of Glasgow, will outline how rehabilitation should play more of a role in helping former criminals to forge rewarding lives.
To find out more, please view the full news release.
Major conference on integrated offender management announced
In conjunction with the Local Criminal Justice Board and the four Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships (CDRPs) in South Yorkshire, the Hallam Centre for Community Justice are currently organising a major conference for all agencies and partners involved in developing and delivering the South Yorkshire strategy on integrated offender management (IOM).
The conference, which is expected to attract 250 delegates, will be held at the Holiday Inn, Rotherham on Wednesday 24 March 2010.
Professor Paul Senior, Director of the HCCJ, commented, 'Integrated offender management is becoming a key tool in reducing reoffending.
'We at the HCCJ are ideally placed to organise this conference with local partners from the Criminal Justice System as we are currently leading the national evaluation of the five IOM Pioneer Sites on behalf of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ).
'The evaluation report is due to be presented to the MoJ in late February and the results of our evaluation will be used to inform the development of an IOM strategy in South Yorkshire.'
Professor Paul Senior addresses the Hong Kong Probation Service
Professor Paul Senior was invited by the Hong Kong Social Welfare Department to speak to senior members of the Hong Kong Probation Service on 3 November 2009.
Professor Senior spoke on the topic of '21st Century Probation Practice: Notes from the UK' to an audience of key officials from the HK Social Welfare Department, including
- Wong Yuk-tong (chief social work officer for staff development and training - on left in bottom photo)
Leung Lai-kun, Alan (social work officer for training - second from left in middle photo)- Grace Chan (senior social work officer for social work training - third from left in middle photo)
- David Wai-to Chan (SCOPE, City University Hong Kong - on right in bottom photo)
His speech charted the development of the UK's probation service and shared issues relating to the UK's current practices of probation, including
- the relationship between the court and probation officer
- the expected tasks of probation officers
the counterparts of probation officers- the difficulties encountered by probation officers in UK
This talk is part of a series of visits Professor Senior has conducted in Hong Kong, including to the Correctional Services Department, the Social Welfare Department and the Society for Rehabilitation and Crime Prevention
> Download the slides from Professor Senior's speech
(PDF 676KB)
Contract success for Hallam Centre for Community Justice
The Hallam Centre for Community Justice (HCCJ) has recently been awarded £380,000 by the Ministry of Justice to undertake an evaluation of the Intensive Alternatives to Custody (IAC) Pilot Projects in Dyfed-Powys, Humberside, West Yorkshire, Merseyside and South Wales.
The project team is led by Professor Paul Senior and includes researchers from Sheffield Hallam, Manchester Metropolitan University, Glyndwr University and Ecotec Research and Consulting.
Professor Senior said, 'This is absolutely fantastic news for the Hallam Centre for Community Justice. The Ministry of Justice was delighted with the tender we submitted.
'We have a very strong research team and this work builds upon the work we are currently undertaking evaluating the IAC Pilot in Derbyshire. This is the second largest award of funding we have received from the Ministry of Justice in a matter of weeks and is an obvious sign that the innovative research methodologies and high quality outputs HCCJ produce is in tune with what funders require.'
The HCCJ also led successful bid for funding of £228,000 from the Home Office/Ministry of Justice to undertake an evaluation of the Integrated Offender Management (IOM) scheme, to include a process evaluation, break even analysis and impact evaluation feasibility study of IOM approaches.
HCCJ announce ESRC award
A proposal submitted by Dr Malcolm Cowburn to carry out research at HMP Wakefield has been accepted by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and funding awarded to Dr Cowburn and his research team.
The study aims to identify how minority groups experience the diversity policies and procedures in place and to ascertain how these procedures could be improved to promote a greater feeling of respect and well being in minority groups, identify the efficacy of AI methodology in informing understanding of diversity in the prisons context, and reflect on whether current theorising of diversity can relate to minority prisoners' experiences of life in prison.
Professor Paul Senior, Director of the HCCJ, is delighted at the award of this grant as it represents another major success for the HCCJ. This ESRC award, our first such award, stands alongside three other major contracts the centre has secured in the past three months - two pieces of contract research for the Ministry of Justice and the Department of Work and Pensions respectively, and the HEIF 4 award within the faculty.
HCCJ present conference on 'Offender Rehabilitation and A Sex Offender Register in Hong Kong'
Professor Paul Senior (Director of the Hallam Centre for Community Justice) and David Woodhill (Head of the Applied Social Science Division) were invited to address a conference on 'Offender Rehabilitation' at the School of Continuing and Professional Education (SCOPE), City University of Hong Kong, on 17 January 2009.
The conference, a joint event between SCOPE and Sheffield Hallam University, endeavored to provide a platform for people working in the field of offender rehabilitation to exchange ideas and develop a common vision of striking a balance between protecting children in society and respecting the privacy and the right of offenders (or their families).
There were over 140 attendees from the judicial sector, legal professions, social welfare, social workers, probation services, NGOs representing a wider variety of organizations and university academics in the field.
> Please click here to download the briefing paper (PDF 166KB)
