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Peer mentors and desistance:a systematic literature review and synthesis
Full text linkThis systematic literature review investigates the deployment and effectiveness of peer mentors in criminal justice practice. The findings reveal a lack of any consistent definition of what constitutes a peer becoming a mentor within this context. Despite this, strong evidence suggests that support from a peer mentor alongside formal interventions positively influences subjective factors that contribute to desistance from crime for both mentors and mentees, particularly among prison leavers. This review formulates three themes: “Street and Carceral Capital,” “Conflicts of Warrants to Knowledge,” and “Growth Reciprocity,” which are key aspects of peer mentoring and demonstrate both the challenges and benefits of the inclusion of peer mentors as a criminal justice response to preventing re-offending. Consequently, international policymakers should focus on recruiting, training, and retaining professionals with personal experience of crime and desistance to enhance the efficacy of criminal justice interventions and testing their impact
The "double whammy" of addiction and prison:recovering without recovery
No full textMy name is Andi Brierley, and I am currently a Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Investigation and Policing at Leeds Trinity University (LTU). I have been in Higher Education for around 3 years as I write this chapter and prior to this role, I was a Senior Teacher on the Custodial Leadership MSc delivered by LTU in partnership with the Unlocked Graduates. This is a graduate scheme, and the students are required to work as front-line prison officers while studying for the MSc degree. Before starting that role in September 2021, I worked in the field of Youth Justice with children and young people receiving Youth Justice disposals from 2008. This started through working with children sentenced for the most serious offences and in the latter part of my Youth Justice journey within a strategic role safely reducing children in the care of the Local Authority encountering the Youth Justice System. This role was responding to various independent reports highlighting an overrepresentation of those who experience care within the criminal justice system and how it can impair health and social outcomes
Using the 3 ‘C’s to unlock student success:a closer look at a coaching approach to personal tutoring
No full textAn environment of high-quality personalised and successful personal tutoring supported through effective staff development, reflection, and evaluation can help universities to meet their regulatory requirements, such as the Office for Students’ B Conditions, specifically B1, 2 and 3. These conditions stipulate providers must establish practices which ensure “high quality, reliable and positive outcomes for all students” (Office for Students, 2022).The reflective process of coaching can help support students to address issues in their personal, academic, or professional life (ICL, 2023). Effective coaching can provide a forum for student stories to be turned into strategies, which will enhance the student experience, leading to success. The training of staff and delivery of this approach to personal tutoring across HE is varied and inconsistent. Through a synthesis of coaching theory and models, this paper takes a practical look at ‘how’ coaching practices can be applied within a personal tutoring session. It provides a practical framework and methodology for those wanting to adopt a coaching approach for the first time, based around the three ‘C’s – ‘Connecting’, ‘Contracting’ and ‘Conversations’. This framework has been adopted in what has become mandatory training for all personal tutors based at one UK HE institution and is used as a structure for interactions with and development of students
Doing M(eme)CA:exploring categorial practices at the intersection of face-to-face in situ and online post-factum use
No full textDeveloping the creative communities framework for living well with serious mental illness:findings from a realist evaluation
No full textTo answer the research question how, why and in what context do community arts organisations establish a safe and empowering space that allows individuals with serious mental illness to engage with recovery processes. A realist evaluation was conducted between 2021 and 2023. This paper presents findings from primary data collection utilising arts elicitation interviews with 12 participants with serious mental illness at 2 time points. A further four realist interviews were conducted with workers from community organisations. Template analysis was the main analytical tool used to test and refine an initial programme theory, incorporating sub‐analyses of visual and longitudinal data. Theory was developed that explains how the interactions between the lived experiences and community interventions creates a safe and empowering space. Six key ingredients were identified including (1) community setting; (2) creative activity; (3) consistent access; (4) choice over engagement; (5) shared lived experiences; (6) compassionate workers; forming the Creative Communities Framework. Creative communities present an alternative context to clinical spaces, to support individuals to live well with serious mental illness
Understanding post-pandemic cultural change and declining school attendance
No full textPublic Accounts Committee: Improving Educational Outcomes for Disadvantaged Children. Written evidence submitted by Leeds Trinity University and the University of Leeds (IEDO0028)
The new Ofsted report card:shuffling the deckchairs after the iceberg has hit?
No full textOfsted have recently unveiled their new draft inspection framework for consultation, including the ‘toolkit’ by which judgements will be made when this is adopted in the near future. After one of us took part in an online discussion about the new draft report card system, the dialogue which took place (which was both hugely enjoyable and thought provoking) led us to reflect on why we are uneasy about the impending new system
Circular procurement implementation barriers in the construction industry of developing economies:a quantitative analysis
No full textPurpose - The procurement phase of the construction project lifecycle remains critical for facilitating successful project outcomes, mainly as it concerns sustainability performance. Therefore, integrating circular economy principles into procurement functions (circular procurement-CP) has become imperative. However, the implementation of CP remains underresearched in the context of the construction industry. This study addresses this knowledge gap by identifying and assessing the inhibitors to optimal CP implementation in a developing economy context.Design/methodology/approach - The study adopted a survey strategy wherein quantitative data was collected from a population of a randomly selected sample of construction professionals using questionnaires. The responses were subsequently analysed using descriptive and multivariate statistics. These includes mean scores, Kruskal Wallis h-test (K-W), student newman kauls (SNK) post hoc technique, exploratory factor analysis (EFA), and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The CFA was employed to affirm the derived constructs from the EFA. Findings - The study’s results indicate that lack of support from top management, lack of financial resources and perceived high implementation costs ranked as the top three barriers negating effective CP implementation in construction organisations. Furthermore, the barriers were classified into five clusters: inadequacy of government policies and initiatives, stakeholder-related challenges, procurement-related bottlenecks, organisational culture, and financial impediments categories, respectively. Originality/value - Besides enabling an elicitation of the critical barriers to CP implementation in the Nigerian construction industry, the study’s results are expected to contribute towards bridging the extant knowledge-practice gap.Practical implications - The study’s results will increase CP implementation awareness among relevant Nigerian construction industry stakeholders. Also, the study outlines best practice guides for stakeholders in the construction delivery value chain to drive sustainable procurement