Home Affairs and Justice

Improving home affairs and criminal justice policies is a major public policy challenge. Police forces need continued reform and more effective collaboration, prisons face high incarceration and reoffending rates, and the borders are increasingly under pressure and must prepare for the outcomes of Brexit.

Reform undertakes work on how the right workforce, performance measures, devolved structures and technology can support services through these challenges.

Publications

30th October 2020

Tools for transforming lives: using technology to reduce reoffending

This report assesses how prisons could use technology to promote desistance and improve resettlement outcomes. It considers why technology is not yet being used to full effect, and suggests some areas for policymakers to consider.

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29th October 2020

A force for change: policing after the pandemic

This Reform Perspectives sets out recommendations for the future of policing beyond the pandemic. It is authored by Dave Thompson QPM, Chief Constable, West Midlands Police.

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20th March 2020

Reducing the prison population: Extending Home Detention Curfew and scrapping short sentences

This Reform Perspectives assesses current Government policy to reduce overcrowding, why, while welcome, argues it is insufficient, and outlines what further changes should be made to immediately reduce the prison population.