
National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance (NCJAA) Blog
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Our blog aims to present opinion-based pieces from our network. We want to hear what our community is doing in prisons or community settings - whether it is an art intervention, research or perhaps a question or problem they have been facing or a good practice example they would like to highlight, we post it all here. Our aim is to ensure the arts are used within the criminal justice system as a..
National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance (NCJAA) Blog
1M ago
The NCJAA is seeking voluntary sector professionals or freelance art practitioners working in the arts in criminal justice system, to join our Advisory Group ..read more
National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance (NCJAA) Blog
1M ago
What is the NCJAA? The National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance (NCJAA) exists to promote the specific role of arts and arts organisations working with people in the criminal justice system ..read more
National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance (NCJAA) Blog
6M ago
Training on reflective writing, proof reading, writing reports – case studies, complaints and funding applications. The National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance (NCJAA) is excited to unveil its latest training programme ..read more
National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance (NCJAA) Blog
9M ago
In this evidence review, Professor Charlie Brooker, honorary professor at Royal Holloway, University of London and Dr Coral Sirdifield, Senior Research Associate at the University of Lincoln, look at:
The benefits of focusing on the mental health of people on probation
What we know about the mental health of people on probation
The organisation of mental health care, current initiatives, and challenges to providing high-quality care
What good quality care for people on probation looks like
Improving the evidence base and provision of care ..read more
National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance (NCJAA) Blog
11M ago
State of the Sector 2023 is live! The criminal justice voluntary sector has been mapped out, highlighting the changes over the past year.
Clinks’ role is to support, promote and represent the voluntary sector working in the criminal justice system. Our annual State of the Sector research, produced in partnership with NCVO, is a free resource evidencing what our members and sector are experiencing and the impact on their service users.
State of the Sector 2023 explores the landscape of the criminal justice voluntary sector as it responds to a year of reduction of funding and resources for m ..read more
National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance (NCJAA) Blog
1y ago
Part of the “A matter of fact: what the evidence tells us” series
Monday 4 March 2024, Online, Free ..read more
National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance (NCJAA) Blog
1y ago
Clinks Thinks sets out Clinks’ key principles, policy ambitions and recommendations, developed in consultation with voluntary sector organisations ..read more
National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance (NCJAA) Blog
1y ago
Sandwell Youth Offending Service (YOS) and the Institute for Community Research and Development developed this good practice guide with the aim of helping others design and implement creative arts approaches in youth justice, and to understand the impact of what they do.
This guide is the resource that the authors wish they had when they set out on their journey – it should be of use to staff right across youth justice services and prove to be a valuable resource.
Read the guide
This guide has been published by Sandwell Children’s Trust and the Institute for Community Research and De ..read more
National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance (NCJAA) Blog
1y ago
This blog is guest written by Bill Chambers.
Bill Chambers is a freelance artist and printmaker working in community arts and education.
I love printmaking and I’ve been doing it for so long now that I ought to be an expert. I fell for it at college in the early 90’s and on my first visit to the print room I was in awe. It was so different, so tranquil with it’s quiet industry and age old machinery, it’s areas and it’s rules.
Am I an expert?
The truth is I just love printing. It’s my vocation. As I have got older, I have come to realise that I am lucky to have a vocation at all and although th ..read more
National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance (NCJAA) Blog
1y ago
This blog is guest written by Marega Palser.
Marega Palser is a multi-dimensional shape shifting performance-based artist.
Background
My first experience of prison was back in the early 90’s. My boyfriend at the time was doing two years so I got to visit various ‘walled establishments’, And, got to see parts of Britain I’d never been to … think of it as an alternative road trip. In Jimmy Boyle’s ‘Sence of Freedom’, on the way to Barlinnie Prison after being sentenced for Life, he makes this observation of having never seen the countryside, which was so close to his native Glasgow.&n ..read more