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Ms Helen Fair

Positions held:
  • Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences
  • Overview

    Overview

    Biography

    Helen worked at the International Centre for Prison Studies (ICPS) from February 2001, and became Research Associate in 2004. When ICPS merged with ICPR in November 2014 she became an ICPR Research Fellow. At ICPS she contributed research to projects including the Assessment of Alternatives to Prison in Afghanistan, also for the FCO, the Gender and Penal Reform Toolkit for the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, a report for the European Parliament on Conditions of Imprisonment in EU Member States and the Candidate Countries, and a report on International Experience in Reform of Penal Management Systems for the UNDP Vietnam. Helen was lead researcher on an International Review of Women鈥檚 Imprisonment for the Ministry of Justice, and has led the referencing of the HM Inspectorate of Prisons document聽Expectations聽and its subsequent updates since it was first produced in 2003.

    Since 2012 she has been responsible for updating and maintaining the non-data sections of the World Prison Brief website, a database which provides information about prison systems throughout the world. World Prison Brief can be accessed here聽http://www.prisonstudies.org/world-prison-brief

    Since joining ICPR she has worked on UK-based prison research including co-authoring a process evaluation of the Restorative Prisons pilot project developed by Restorative Solutions. She has continued to undertake international research through the World Prison Research Programme, co-authoring the reports聽Prison: Evidence of its use and overuse from around the world,聽Pre-trial detention and its over-use: Evidence from ten countries聽and the book聽Imprisonment Worldwide: The Current Situation and an Alternative Future,聽which was published by Policy Press in 2016. She also co-authored a series of briefings highlighting learning聽from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Prison Reform Fellowships, which have a particular focus on prison reform initiatives across the world. Most recently she has completed work on the 3rd聽edition of the key text聽A Human Rights Approach to Prison Management: Handbook for Prison Staff,聽which she co-authored聽with Professor Andrew Coyle and which was launched in Geneva in July 2018.


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  • Publications

    Publications

    Article

    • Coyle, Andrew and Heard, Catherine and Fair, Helen (2016) . International Review of the Red Cross 98 (903), pp. 761-781. ISSN 1816-3831.

    Book

    • Coyle, Andrew and Fair, Helen (2018) . London, UK: Institute for Criminal Policy Research 糖心logo入口, University of London. ISBN 9780907904335.
    • Coyle, Andrew and Fair, Helen and Jacobson, Jessica and Walmsley, R. (2016) . Policy Press Shorts Insights. Bristol, UK: Policy Press. ISBN 9781447331759.

    Book section

    • Fair, Helen and Heard, Catherine (2022) . In: Binder, C. and Nowak, M. and Hofbauer, J.A. and Janig, P. (eds.) Elgar Encyclopedia of Human Rights. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781789903614.

    Monograph

    • Allen, R. and Fair, Helen (2024) . London, UK: ICPR.
    • Fair, Helen and Walmsley, Roy (2024) . London, UK: ICPR.
    • Jarman, Ben and Fair, Helen (2024) . pp. 23. London, UK: Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research.
    • Jarman, Ben and Fair, Helen (2024) . pp. 23. London, UK: Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research.
    • Fair, Helen and Walmsley, Roy (2022) . London, UK: ICPR.
    • Fair, Helen and Jacobson, Jessica (2021) . London: ICPR.
    • Heard, Catherine and Fair, Helen (2019) . London, UK: Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research.
    • Fair, Helen and Jacobson, Jessica (2018) . London, UK: Restorative Solutions.
    • Jacobson, Jessica and Heard, Catherine and Fair, Helen (2017) . London, UK: Institute for Criminal Policy Research & Fair Trials.
    • Fair, Helen and Jacobson, Jessica (2017) . London, UK: Prison Reform Trust.
    • Jacobson, Jessica and Fair, Helen (2017) . London, UK: Prison Reform Trust.
    • Jacobson, Jessica and Fair, Helen (2016) . London: Prison Reform Trust.
    • Fair, Helen and Jacobson, Jessica (2016) . London, UK: Prison Reform Trust.
    • Jacobson, Jessica and Fair, Helen (2016) . London, UK: Prison Reform Trust.