Oddly Enough …

Oddly enough … trying to wade your way through some of the most sensitive issues in all of public policy isn’t straight-forward. Deaths in police custody … the use of force on vulnerable people … when, if ever, to prosecute a vulnerable person … navigating ‘pathways’ and processes which span multiple criminal justice agencies and even […]

Blog PDF Volumes

I realised a while ago, to my near-total horror, that all this work and writing I’ve done over the last six years was all on this BLOG but it wasn’t backed-up anywhere else! I know, I know … I’d always just assumed that WordPress wouldn’t collapse on me and (touch wood), it hasn’t so far. […]

Mental Health v Criminal Justice

It’s all too often a contest, of sorts – or perhaps a stand-off?! … two massive paradigms of state intervention, constituted and resourced for a certain set of separate public purposes, governed by separate laws that were (substantively) written around the same time, in the early 80s; and yet in so many important respects, they […]