A knowledge hub for practitioners, policymakers and researchers to collaborate and deliver best practice and evidence in the field.
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We engage with:Ìý
- education in a broad sense - formal, informal and non-formal education, training and learning ÌýÌý
- the life course as a whole - a developmental approach to understanding the relationship between education, offending and desistance Ìý
- rights and justice - the rights of prisoners as citizens and learners entitled to high-quality and diverse learning opportunities.
The centre was formerly known asÌýCentre for Education in the Criminal Justice System (CECJS).
People
Co-directors
Advisory group
- , Emeritus ProfessorÌý
- Dave Maguire, Prison Reform TrustÌý
- , Reader in Education, Co-Director of the Centre for Post-14 Education and WorkÌý
- Anita Wilson, Prison Ethnographer.
Honorary affiliated advisors
- Andreas Aresti,ÌýSenior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Westminster
- Angela Herbert,ÌýDirector of Inside Out Transformational Coaching Solutions.
Funders
We have benefited from the generous support from:
- British AcademyÌý
- CfBTÌý
- City and Guilds Centre for Skills DevelopmentÌý
- Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) / National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE)Ìý
- Department for Education and SkillsÌý
- Higher Education Funding CouncilÌý
- Mary Kinross Charitable TrustÌý
- The Bell FoundationÌý
- The National Offender Management Service Ìý
- PWCÌý
- Sir John Cass's FoundationÌý
- UKRI Research EnglandÌý
- Youth Justice BoardÌý
- 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust.
Activities
- Teaching
We are a teaching hub for undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in education within the criminal justice system.
For undergraduate students we offer a module introduction to Criminal Journeys, exploring views on what constitutes crime, how people become involved in the criminal justice system and what that involvement looks like.
- Publications
- Lenoir, R., & Wong, K. K. Y. (2023). Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on young people from black and mixed ethnic groups’ mental health in West London: a qualitative study. BMJ open, 13(5), e071903
- Maguire, D. 2021. Male, Failed, Jailed. Palgrave McMillan. Ìý
- Wong, K. K. Y., Francesconi, M., & Flouri, E. (2021). Internalizing and externalizing problems across childhood and psychotic-like experiences in young-adulthood: The role of developmental period. Schizophrenia Research, 231, 108-114.Ìý
- Portnoy, J., Bedoya, A., & Wong, K. K. Y. (2021). Child Externalizing and Internalizing Behavior and Parental Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Open: Environment Preprint.Ìý
- Wong, K. K. Y. (2020). Schizophrenia and Crime. Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences, 4575-4580.Ìý
- Vorhaus, J. (2021). Bringing People Down: Degrading Treatment and Punishment. New Criminal Law Review. 24.3: 433-466. ÌýÌý
- Intensive English and maths provision in prisons: pilot evaluation in 6 prisons, with NIACE, for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)Ìý
- Hurry, J., Lawrence, P., Wilson, A., & Plant, J. (2013). Evaluation of 'Write to be Heard", a project on writing in prison, commissioned by National Offender management Service (NOMS), led by the Arts AllianceÌý
- Rogers, L., Simonot, M., & Nartey, A. (2014). (PDF). London: UCU.Ìý
- Analysis of youth offenders' occupational identities and its relationship to subsequent offending patternsÌý
- An assessment of the English and maths skills levels of prisoners in EnglandÌý
- Martin Luther King "Now is the time" - His Dream to Influence Education Today by Angela HerbertÌý
- Vorhaus, J. (2014). Prisoners’ right to education. London Review of Education. 12.2: 162-174.Ìý
- Rogers, L. (2016) Disengagement from Education. London: Trentham Books IOE Press.Ìý
- Hurry, J. and Rogers, L. Eds (2014) Education, training and employment in prison and post-release. Special Edition, London Review of Education, 12(2). Ìý
- Rogers, L., Hurry, J., Simonot, M., & Wilson, A. (2014) The aspirations and realities of prison education for under-25s in the London area, London Review of Education, 12(2), 184–196.
To find out more about our researchers and publications go to: Ìý
- Blue-Sky Thinking seminar recordings
- – Yellow Ribbon SingaporeÌý
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- The quest for desistance: Implementing educational programmes for inmates