On the island of Jersey, the success of local industries including agriculture, tourism, and financial services has helped grow the population of permanent residents, contract workers, seasonal workers, and short-term tourists. As a result, between 1950 and 2015 the...
Risk and need assessment in British probation: the contribution of LSI-R
From 1996 until about 2000 the Canadian Level of Service Inventory Revised (LSI-R) was in use in a number of probation services in England and Wales, and it is still in use in the Jersey Probation and After-Care Service. This article reviews what has been learned...
Evidence-based Probation in a Microstate
Probation services throughout the world have difficulty in assessing the risks and needs presented by offenders, in evaluating the effectiveness of supervision, and in enabling practitioners to assess the impact of their work with individual offenders. This paper...
Evaluating the role of the parish hall enquiry
This article is based on the first two years of a five year research project commissioned by the Jersey Probation Service and the Crime and Community Safety Strategy to document and evaluate the role of the Parish Hall Enquiry system.
The bailiff’s role as guardian of the constitution
The Bailiff’s role as guardian of the constitution is less well known than other aspects of this office. In 2019 the Attorney General was asked a written question in the States Assembly as to the nature of the role. This article expands upon the answer that was given...
The role of attorney general as titular head of Jersey’s honorary police
Jersey’s system of honorary policing is unique. The status of the Attorney General as titular head of the Honorary Police is one of the functions which attracts little public attention. This article examines the origin and extent of the Attorney General’s rights and...