Useful website for finding out what organisations like this one are campaigning for. Women, children, overcrowding in prisons, treatment and conditions.
Recent campaign promoting community sentences as a more effective alternative to prison:
Different social pressures, etc...
HM Prison Service
http://www.hmprisonservice.gov.uk/
Useful for background knowledge of how a prison operates, for example segregation unit, workshops...
PPO Prisons and Probation Ombudsman
Provides list of support groups for prisoners and families.
News article about young offender's rehabilitation:
http://www.hmprisonservice.gov.uk/news/index.asp?id=10248,22,6,22,0,0
Offers a different side than that of Howard League. Maybe could be biased towards the system as official government website.
Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974
http://www.crb.homeoffice.gov.uk/about_crb/what_is_the_roa.aspx
Helps offenders who haven't reoffended within a specific amount of time after being released.
This could be useful in researching the legislation in place concerning rehabilitation.
Further research into this would need to be done.
Punishments in the UK
http://www.courtroomadvice.co.uk/punishment-rehabilitation.html
Good for learning about the different types of punsihments in the UK such as community punishment orders, fines, refferal orders and supervision orders
However, would need to do more reaserch to gain in depth knowledge.
The Economist Newspaper
http://www.economist.com/node/17312073?story_id=17312073
Brilliant article for learning facts and figures of reoffending and the impact it has on the rest of the country.
Short term inmates cost the prison service over £285m a year, about 60% of themn are reconvicted within a year.
The number of prisoners in England and Wales has almost doubled since 1993.
Community service produces lower reoffending rates than short-term sentences, 37% to 61%.
Justice secretary Ken Clarke proposing overhauling sentencing and rehabilitation in a green paper by last Christmas, so must research this.
Useful graph!!
(The full article is saved on my computer, with more of it highlighted than I have included here)
NEXT RESEARCH TOPIC AREAS: Rehabilitation (inc.ROA) and looking at case studies, methods of punishment in UK in detail, and look into Ken Clarke's green paper from last year.
The internet is going to be very useful towards my project. However, I have noticed that many websites either give too much detail or too little detail. I need to back up my findings from books in order to validate the information I am finding. However, in my initial research it has been extremely useful for statistics. A challenge I think I am going to face is that it is proving difficult to find information on punishments without focussing too much on prisons.
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