Ms Helen Fair
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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’s Imprisonment for the Ministry of Justice, and has led the referencing of the HM Inspectorate of Prisons document Expectations 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 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 Prison: Evidence of its use and overuse from around the world, Pre-trial detention and its over-use: Evidence from ten countries and the book Imprisonment Worldwide: The Current Situation and an Alternative Future, which was published by Policy Press in 2016. She also co-authored a series of briefings highlighting learning 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 edition of the key text A Human Rights Approach to Prison Management: Handbook for Prison Staff, which she co-authored with Professor Andrew Coyle and which was launched in Geneva in July 2018.
Web profiles
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Coyle, Andrew and Heard, Catherine and Fair, Helen (2016) Current trends and practices in the use of imprisonment. International Review of the Red Cross 98 (903), pp. 761-781. ISSN 1816-3831.
Book
- Coyle, Andrew and Fair, Helen (2018) A Human Rights Approach to Prison Management: Handbook for Prison Staff (3rd edition). London, UK: Institute for Criminal Policy Research Birkbeck, University of London. ISBN 9780907904335.
- Coyle, Andrew and Fair, Helen and Jacobson, Jessica and Walmsley, R. (2016) Imprisonment worldwide: the current situation and an alternative future. Policy Press Shorts Insights. Bristol, UK: Policy Press. ISBN 9781447331759.
Book Section
- Fair, Helen and Heard, Catherine (2022) Prisoners. In: Binder, C. and Nowak, M. and Hofbauer, J.A. and Janig, P. (eds.) Elgar Encyclopedia of Human Rights. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781789903614. (In Press)
Monograph
- Fair, Helen and Walmsley, Roy (2022) World Female Imprisonment List (5th edition). London, UK: ICPR.
- Fair, Helen and Jacobson, Jessica (2021) Keeping COVID out of prisons: approaches in ten countries. London: ICPR.
- Heard, Catherine and Fair, Helen (2019) Pre-trial detention and its over-use: evidence from ten countries. London, UK: Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research.
- Fair, Helen and Jacobson, Jessica (2018) Process evaluation of the Restorative Prisons project. London, UK: Restorative Solutions.
- Fair, Helen and Jacobson, Jessica (2017) Peer relations: Review of learning from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Prison Reform Fellowships – Part IV. London, UK: Prison Reform Trust.
- Jacobson, Jessica and Fair, Helen (2017) Sense of self and responsibility: a review of learning from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Prison Reform Fellowships – Part V. London, UK: Prison Reform Trust.
- Jacobson, Jessica and Heard, Catherine and Fair, Helen (2017) Prison: evidence of its use and over-use from around the world. London, UK: Institute for Criminal Policy Research & Fair Trials.
- Fair, Helen and Jacobson, Jessica (2016) Family connections: a review of learning from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Prison Reform Fellowships, Part II. London, UK: Prison Reform Trust.
- Jacobson, Jessica and Fair, Helen (2016) Problem solving approaches: a review of learning from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Prison Reform Fellowships Part III. London, UK: Prison Reform Trust.
- Jacobson, Jessica and Fair, Helen (2016) Connections: a review of learning from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowships. London: Prison Reform Trust.