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What do we mean by leadership in criminal justice? What kind of leaders will bring about the system shifts that we need? What should leadership training focus on? My professional doctorate research explores the leadership journeys of people with lived experience of prison who become changemakers, so I've been thinking about the concept of 'leadership' and the qualities of outstanding leaders. I was therefore intrigued to attend the European Justice Education and Leadership Su

Recently, at an online launch of the Global Justice Symposium, attendees from around the world were asked to describe, in one word, what needed to change. The word most frequently repeated in the chat was ‘dehumanisation.’ We know the problem. But what would a more ‘human’ justice system look like? Where is this currently happening in pockets around the world that we can build on? This was the ambitious task undertaken by Nina Champion, Jacob Dunne and Prof. Alison Liebling o