International conference
Crime, Justice and Social Harms
will be held on 31 March–1 April 2020 at Keble College, Oxford.
Research
The Howard League for Penal Reform has a long and strong history of working alongside the academic and research communities. A guiding principle of our work has been to develop new ideas and understanding of the consequences of changes and innovations in the penal system.
Featured publications
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Arresting the entry of women into the criminal justice system
NEW A report by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Women in the Penal System. This briefing scopes the situation as regards the arrests of women.
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‘Know your numbers’: Using data to monitor and address criminalisation
This is the fifth briefing from the Howard League’s programme to end the criminalisation of children in residential care.
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Playing for change
The report exploring Probationary: The Game of Life on Licence, a co-produced artwork that takes the form of a board game which aims to offer new insights into the lived experiences of those on licence to probation.
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Sentencing principles for young adults
The report sets out how principled guidelines would help judges and magistrates to understand young adults better, and provide a legal framework to achieve better sentencing decisions.
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‘This is our story’: Children and young people on criminalisation in residential care
This is the fourth in a series of briefings to be published alongside a programme of research and campaign work to end the criminalisation of children living in residential care.
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Sentencers and sentenced
A report by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Women in the Penal System
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Sentencing Young Adults
This report makes the case for sentencing principles for young adults.
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Child arrests in England and Wales 2017
This briefing paper presents the data on the number of child arrests from 2010 to 2017 by police service area.
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