As major criminal justice reforms are being put in place, Professor Alex Sutherland, Professor in Practice Criminology & Public Policy at DSPI, writes for University of Oxford exploring the options for making early release and alternatives to prison safer.
In his Expert Comment, Professor Sutherland discusses the challenges of balancing public safety through measures such as risk assessments within the context of prison overcrowding and limited resources, and argues there is a “genuine opportunity” to assess the effectiveness of the upcoming changes and how they can be informed by research.
Read his Expert Comment in full
