It wasn’t too long ago that if a Prison Officer suspected a person of carrying contraband into a prison then... Read More
Context Criminal justice in Brazil faces many challenges, as crime is growing and the prisons are packed. The volume of... Read More
Context Citizens in Northern Ireland (NI) have embraced advances in technology. The most recent research states that 76% of people... Read More
Context & Problem Research shows that while the number of crimes has declined, the number of prisoners has not, and... Read More
The understanding that it is possible to make electronic monitoring (EM) technology evolve into the spectrum of preventive action is... Read More
Context The Adoption of Electronic Monitoring Technologies The Portuguese Ministry of Justice is no stranger to the multiple benefits that... Read More
Electronic monitoring and the future What do we talk about when we talk about “electronic monitoring” (EM)? We talk about... Read More
By Dr Victoria Knight and Dr Lee Hadlington De Montfort University, United Kingdom Earlier this year we announced the launch... Read More
There is a tendency to associate virtual reality with the gaming industry as, over the past couple of years, we... Read More
Overcoming the challenges of prison overcrowding has proven to be a difficult task for many jurisdictions around the globe. Social... Read More
According to the recent statistics, Britons on average make 132 million mobile phone calls a day. On top of this,... Read More
In Ibero-America, we live in democracy after ending the dictatorial regimes. In international time, that was just the day before... Read More
Introduction – Moving the dial The mission of corrections is a constant. However, the environment is which it operates is... Read More
Rehabilitation is a long-term goal that most countries have not begun to address. Although some have redesigned their institutional mission... Read More
You have a kid that you have taken care of your whole life, and suddenly he/she ends up in prison.... Read More
Incarceration in Canada To be incarcerated means that the justice system has deemed that an individual be separated from society... Read More
The R2PRIS certification is a capacity building programme developed with the support of the European Commission and built as the... Read More
On the 27th February 2018, the European Commission (EC) and the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union... Read More
Best practices show that electronic monitoring (EM) can be an interesting tool, especially if used to serve a strategy of... Read More
“The contrast between a prison with and without kiosks is like night and day.” (Prisoner S.M., HMP Northumberland, operated by... Read More
If, as Dostoyevsky said, the degree of civilization of a society can be judged by entering its prisons, we could... Read More
The one constant of technology is that it is always evolving. While this constant evolution has the potential to enable... Read More
This is quite a dilemma for many correctional agencies: once decided that something needs to happen to modernise the current... Read More
The judicial and corrections sector, both from academics and practitioners’ point of view, has traditionally been quite cautious when it... Read More
Cases of violence, arson and planned terror attacks, combined with the worrying number of young people joining extremist organisations or... Read More
Jails in America are obsolete and so are the buildings and the philosophy behind them. But, right now, they’re often... Read More
Women are a minority in prison. Currently, of the 10.35 million prisoners worldwide, over 700.000 (6.8%) are female (1). However,... Read More
In the last 40 years, one of the main concerns for prison administrations was the reduction of prison populations. The... Read More
There seems to be a consensus that prison and probation need to have close interaction and communication whenever a continuum... Read More
The project “Improving capacities and capabilities within the prison service in the Republic of Serbia” especially focuses on providing support... Read More
Criminological paradigms, such as the “Social Bond Theory”, offer no doubt about the importance of social bonds and family support... Read More
“When I moved to HMP Northumberland I was so happy to see a kiosk. In my previous prisons, friends spoke... Read More
The model of deprivation of liberty in Latin America has been going through a deep crisis for decades, and penitentiaries... Read More
