RaRiE goes to Warsaw
This week will find members of the RaRiE team sharing some of the ‘first fruits’ of our labour. We’ll be at the European Society of Criminology’s annual conference, this year hosted by the University of Warsaw.
Until recently, the study of penal systems has focused mainly on their most severe or repressive features (like imprisonment or the death penalty). However, there is now much evidence that these systems often do great harm even when aiming to do good, not least by expanding the scale, reach and intensity of penal control.
By examining evidence from three countries that are often considered to have relatively ‘progressive’ penal systems and approaches (the Netherlands, Norway and Scotland), the RaRiE project aims to help better understand whether and where rehabilitation lives up to its ideals, and to creatively, critically and comparatively interrogate its development and prospects, its coherences and contradictions, its rhetoric and its realities, its pitfalls and its possibilities.
RaRiE on the Road - EuroCrim 2026
Wed, 30 Sep 2026 10:13:00 BST
Dr Amy Cullen, University of Glasgow, reflects on the team's presentations at EuroCrim 2026
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2 Jun
International Network for Criminal Justice Online Seminars on RaRiE
The RaRiE project is the focus of two online seminars organised by the International Network for Criminal Justice. The first seminar was held on 7 May 2026 - Comparing Rehabilitation: Why, Where and How. The second was held on 10 June 2026 - Comparing Rehabilitation: International Conversations. -
24 Jul
Starting Two Journeys: How preparing for Motherhood has made me think differently about rehabilitation
As RaRiE Research Associate Fern Gillon prepares for two significant life transitions, beginning work on the RaRiE project and becoming a first-time parent, she reflects on the shared themes of identity, change and uncertainty that connect motherhood and rehabilitation.
