Safer Communities: Volume 17 Issue 1

Rehabilitating prisoners: the place of basic life skills programmes

Michelle Jolley

Tackling high reoffending rates in England and Wales is of significant political interest, with education and training being viewed as an important mechanism to achieve change…

“Honour”-based violence in a British South Asian community

Roxanne Khan, Shamam Saleem, Michelle Lowe

The purpose of this paper is to explore attitudes towards, and victimisation experiences of, “honour”-based violence (HBV) in a reportedly vulnerable population in the UK.

From crime science to the crime of science

Daniel Briggs, Jorge Ramiro Pérez Suárez, Raquel Rebeca Cordero Verdugo

The purpose of this paper is to provide an honest and critical reflection with regard to the damage neoliberalised education systems have had on the “crime science” of criminology…

The missing link in training to detect deception and its implications for justice

Saskia Ryan, Nicole Sherretts, Dominic Willmott, Dara Mojtahedi, Benjamin M. Baughman

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of response bias and target gender on detecting deception.

Black men, religiosity and desistance: exploring Islam, desistance and identity

Shona Robinson-Edwards, Craig Pinkney

The purpose of this paper is to explore the experiences of Ibrahim, an ex-offender who has embraced Islam. Ibrahim professes Islam to be the influential element to his desistance…