This week, we expanded our resource library with a Narrative Summary for Spain, created by Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela, one of our consortium members. You can read the summary, along with additional information on community corrections in Spain, here.

This week, we expanded our resource library with two new additions, a country profile for Barbados written by Deborah Koetzle, Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a data summary for Turks and Caicos. These new resources can be found on our Country Profiles page under the Central American and…

We are pleased to announce the release of two new documents for Community Corrections profile for Canada. This includes a Data and Narrative Summary for Community Corrections in Canada.

In November 2025, the Council of Europe released two new reports authored by criminologists Marcelo F. Aebi, Ignacio Cid-Pozo, Edoardo Cocco, and Yuji Z. Hashimoto from the School of Criminal Sciences at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. These publications continue the authors’ long-standing contribution to European criminal justice monitoring, offering updated, harmonized data and analysis…

We are pleased to announce the release of two new documents for Community Corrections profile for China that shed important light on China’s evolving community corrections system authored by Spencer D. Li, Professor, University of Macau.

We’re excited to announce the addition of Correctional Populations in the United States.

We’re excited to announce the addition of Community Corrections profile for Kenya.

Dr. Rosemary Ricciardelli is Full Professor (PhD) and Research Chair in Safety, Security, and Wellness, at Memorial University of Newfoundland’s Fisheries and Marine Institute. She was the winner of the 2023 International Corrections and Prison Association’s Research Excellence Award, the Canadian Sociological Association’s Angus Reid Applied Researcher Award, and the President’s Award for the International Community Justice…

Global Community Corrections Initiative Director James Byrne recently spoke at the 2025 Correctional Research Symposium in Belfast, Northern Ireland. A link to his presentation — The Size, Scope, and Effectiveness of Community Corrections: A Global  Review of Research can be found here. In addition, For those interested in this topic, a much more detailed presentation on…

GCCI Co-Director Faye Taxman gives the keynote presentation at ICPA’s Fourth International Correctional Research Symposium 2025, held May 13-15, 2025 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.  Frank Porporino, Conference Coordinator and  Chair of ICPA’s Research and Development Network, introduced Dr. Taxman.  The theme for this year’s symposium – “From Individual to Ecosystem: Sharing Research that Matters for Corrections”.…