Useful Resources

Below are freely available resources about penal supervision likely to be particularly useful to practitioners. 

• HMIP – practice library

• HMIP – reflections from research series

• Confederation of European Probation - info, events and publications

• Probation Quarterly Journal

Relevant outputs by team members:

Artificial Intelligence

• Weaver , B., Gillon, F., Belton, I., and Heron, G., (2026) What do I not know? How Does AI Effect Critical Thinking. Crimniology and Criminal Justice. OnlineFirst: Open Access

• Gillon, F., and Weaver, B (2026) Generative AI, Critical Thinking and Social Work Practice. Iriss Insights #77 

Co-production 

• Weaver, B., Lightowler, C. and Moodie, K. (2019) Inclusive Justice: Co-Producing Change 

• Weaver, B., and Lightowler, C. (2012) Shaping the criminal justice system: The role of those supported by criminal justice services. Iriss Insights #13

Devolution

• Buchan, J., and Weaver, B., (2026) Community Justice in a Devolved Institutions: Introduction to the Special Issue. British Journal of Community Justice 21: (1)

Penal Policy

• Annison, H., Burke, L., Carr, N., Millings, M., Robinson, G. and Surridge, E. (2023) Making Good?: A Study of How Senior Penal Policy Makers Narrate Policy Reversal The British Journal of Criminology

• Millings, M., Burke, L., Annison, H., Carr, N., Robinson, G. and Surridge, E. (2023) A necessary but painful journey: Experiences of unification in a probation service region Probation Journal 

• Robinson, G., Annison, H., Burke, L., Carr, N., Millings, M., and Surridge, E. (2023) Whose confidence? Regional leaders’ perspectives on building confidence in a reconfigured probation service Criminology and Criminal Justice