Ready to lead a cutting-edge comparative prisons research project? We are recruiting for a Senior Research Fellow to research prison-based work and employment in UK, Brazil, USA.

Do prisons work? If not, do prisons inspectorates do more harm than good? Justice Edwin Cameron will consider these questions in a lecture titled: ‘Prisons and prisons inspectorates: puzzles and paradoxes'.

Some 11.5 million people are held in penal institutions throughout the world, according to the latest edition of the World Prison Population List (WPPL), researched and compiled by Helen Fair and Roy Walmsley and published on 1 December 2021.

Researchers on the AHRC-funded project, Judging Values and Participation in Mental Capacity Law, based at the ICPR, Birkbeck School of Law, have pioneered a training film for specialist lawyers who work in the Court of Protection.

This online short course for criminal justice practitioners will provide practical training and guidance on monitoring and evaluation in criminal justice settings. It is taught by experts from Birkbeck’s Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research and research and development NGO the Centre for Justice Innovation.

ICPR, in partnership with the Centre for Justice Innovation, is running a short course on monitoring and evaluation for criminal justice practitioners, in November 2021. Find out more about the course at a free taster and Q&A session on 16 September!

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