Justice Star
For people in the criminal justice system
Who is the Justice Star for?
The Justice Star has been developed for people in the criminal justice system, who may be serving a sentence, approaching release from prison, or are in the community. The Star is designed to help support people to build a crime-free life.
The Justice Star helps people and the services supporting them identify progress towards key outcomes like accommodation, mental health and well-being, drugs and alcohol and managing strong feelings, and give clarity on where to focus next.
- Can the Justice Star be used with people serving long custodial sentences?
The Justice Star is designed for use with people serving a sentence, approaching release from prison or in the community.
For people with long custodial sentences still to serve we recommend the Recovery Star Secure instead.
Using the Outcomes Star approach
The Justice Star is designed to be used as part of the Outcomes Star approach. That’s why we provide essential training and ongoing support to all licenced practitioners, so you can embed the Outcomes Star approach in your practice.
How does the Justice Star work?
The Justice Star covers ten key outcome areas that are essential to helping people to build a crime-free life, and assesses their progress towards each following a five-stage Journey of Change.
You and the people you support will fill out the Star together, and use it to better identify where their strengths lie and where they might need more help, and to make plans for moving forward along the journey.
Outcome areas
Accommodation
Living skills and self care
Mental health and well-being
Friends and community
Relationships and family
Parenting and caring
Drugs and alcohol
Positive use of time
Managing strong feelings
A crime-free life
The Journey of Change
01
Stuck
02
Accepting help
03
Motivated and taking responsibility
04
Learning what works
05
Self-reliance
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Always rooted in expertise and experience
The Justice Star was developed in collaboration with Leicestershire Integrated Offender Management (IOM) service, Sodexo Justice Services, Uniting Care West (Perth, Australia), Lifeline, North London Forensic Services, The Shaw Trust, Lancashire Women’s Centre and Barnardo’s Family Support Services.
We also gathered feedback from the Fortune Society who work with formerly incarcerated people in New York, Youth Justice Services within the Department of Justice and Attorney-General in Brisbane, Australia, Youth Justice Services within the Department of Health and Human Services in Melbourne, Australia, and the Salvation Army and a project with young offenders in the UK.
