Diversion dividend
Diverting offenders to community support rather than prisons would save money in the justice system and reduce reoffending rates.
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The Bradley Report and the Criminal Justice Workforce
This paper examines what justice workers need to help them to help to implement the 82 recommendations of Lord Bradley’s review of how the justice system supports people with mental health problems or learning disabilities.
Promoting mental health and preventing mental illness
This report calls for greater investment in mental health promotion and argues that this will bring economic advantages.
The chance of a lifetime
A very high proportion of those who have the most serious conduct problems during childhood will go on to become involved in criminal activity.
Briefing 41: Commissioning what works
Individual Placement and Support, which helps people into paid competitive work, is effective, is good value for money and is affordable to the NHS.
Short-changed
Spending on prison mental health care
A Guide to User-Focused Monitoring
Setting up and running a project
The costs of race inequality
This policy paper seeks to strengthen and support the case for action by showing that these poorer experiences and outcomes come at not just a personal cost to those involved – they also increase the financial costs of mental health care
Whose values?
A workbook for values-based practice
Breaking the circles of fear
A review of the relationship between mental health services and African and Caribbean communities