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Violence reduction in prison

[HMPPS (2019)]

A summary of evidence about what works and doesn’t work, to help reduce violence in prison. Part of HMPPS’ Prison & Probation Evidence Resource.

Keywords: violence reduction, safer custody

Weapon Awareness Violence Reduction programme

[Bradford YJS (2022)]

Kathy Biggar Trophy Winner: a 1-2-1 knife crime awareness intervention programme, delivered over 3-6 weeks, to local pupils found to be carrying knives at school, or considered at risk of doing so.

Keywords: young people, knife crime, weapons, violence reduction

How can we reduce tensions, conflict and violence in prison?

[Prison Reform Trust (2020)]

Research based on interviews with prisoners on their views about reducing violence in prisons.

Keywords: violence reduction, safer custody

Reducing prison violence

[Prison Service Journal (2015)]

Special issue of PSJ focusing on ways to reduce violence in prisons.

Keywords: violence reduction, safer custody

Ensuring a safe environment: a conflict centred strategy

[Prison Reform Trust (2018)]

Report from the Prison Reform Trust on “the most effective strategies to prevent prison violence are based on resolving conflicts among people in prison before they escalate”.

Keywords: violence reduction, safer custody

Findings – from interviews with over 2000 staff, prisoners and managers from across the custodial estate – in relation to violence and self harm in prisons. [From the Butler Trust’s Good Book of Prisons].

Keywords: safer custody, self harm, suicide, violence reduction

Stocken Buskers

[Stocken prison (2021)]

Ruth Mann Trophy submission: prisoner buskers line the route to work, playing music to brighten the day and lighten the mood of prisoners and staff alike.

Keywords: safer custody, violence reduction, wellbeing