Call for evidence
Review of poverty and institutional care – can you help strengthen the evidence base? For details see here
How corrupt is Britain?
How Corrupt is Britain? a one day conference on May 10 brought together campaigners, academics, key public figures and journalists to explore how we should tackle the corruption of public life in Britain.
Read coverage of the conference in The Independent
For David Whyte's blog on corruption click here
For Joanna Gilmore and Waqas Tufail's blog on challenging police corruption click here
Who polices the police? Details of the post conference screening (Adobe PDF, 778KB)
How widely should we define 'Corruption'? - David Beetham's blog asks for responses
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Young people, knives and guns
It's 'essential reading' according to The Guardian and who are we to disagree? Take a look and judge for yourself.
A life sentence really?
Our new report on the resettlement of those with a sexual offence convictions can be downloaded here.
Reducing the numbers in custody
Our recent report challenges everyone to look beyond criminal justice solutions. Download it today.
Prison Service Journal
Did you know that Prison Service Journal was taken offline in a Ministry of Justice reorganisation? Yes, we thought it was odd too. So we gave it a home on our site.
Proud partners of The Open University
We work closely with colleagues at the International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research on a range of research and policy initiatives.
Press Release: Law and order spending down by ten per cent, new report reveals. - Spending on law and order in the UK fell by ten per cent in the first two years of Coalition government, a new report published by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies today reveals. read more ...
Press Release: G4S and Serco received over half the coalition's spending on contracted out detention and surveillance services, new report reveals - More than half the spending on private contractors by the UK Border Agency and the National Offender Management Service during the first year of the coalition government went to just two companies, a new report published by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies today reveals. The report, UK Justice Policy Review, shows that out of a total of £745 million spent between May 2010 and April 2011 one third went to G4S, who received £229 million. A further £154 million, one fifth of the total, went to Serco. The contracts covered a range of services including detention, surveillance, prisoner escort and deportation. read more ...
Press Release: Young people face a postcode lottery for their life chances, new data reveals. Embargoed until 00.01 18th July 2012 - Pioneering analysis today (18th July) proves how young people's life chances are determined by where they are born and grow up. This data has been used to develop a free-to-use website that can compare young people's life chances by postcode. read more ...
Press Release: New report challenges Coalition aim to contain prison numbers while cutting welfare. Embargo: 00.01 hours, Monday, January 23, 2012 - At a time of spending cuts and continued increases to inequality, a new report argues the prison population are likely to rise further, despite the Coalition's expressed aim to contain and manage prison numbers (1). read more ...
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