Community Magistrates Delivering Community Justice

What if …? A series of challenging pamphlets

The Howard League for Penal Reform and the Mannheim Centre at the London School of Economics are working in partnership to establish a new pamphlet series that challenges conventional thinking on penal issues.  We would like to invite you to the next seminar in the series which focuses on the role of the magistracy on Monday 26^th March at 6pm in at the London School of Economics.   Frances Crook, Chief Executive of the Howard League has agreed to be the author of the pamphlet which has a working title of:  Community magistrates delivering community justice.

The premise of the pamphlets is to challenge conventional thinking about various aspects of the penal system.  We want to work with established and well thought of thinkers, academics and practitioners to develop innovative, and perhaps controversial, ideas that can work as a stimulus to new policy initiatives and ultimately achieve change.

We are keen to test, challenge and improve the ideas to be promulgated in the pamphlet.  To achieve this the author, in this case Frances Crook, will subject her ideas to ‘peer review’ at this invitee seminar, with the ideas initially subject to scrutiny by a couple of discussants.  We are pleased to announce that the discussants will be John Fassenfelt, Chairman of the Magistrates’ Association, Professor Barry Godfrey, University of Keele and Professor Julian Roberts, Oxford University. The event will be chaired by Professor Frances Heidensohn from the LSE.

Information about this event is available at http://www.howardleague.org/what-if/ In the days before the event a short exposition of Frances Crook’s ideas will be available.  Places are limited.  If you would like to attend this event you can book a place here: http://www.howardleague.org/what-if-event-bkg/?no_cache=1