The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies is an independent public interest charity whose mission is to inspire enduring change by promoting understanding of social harm, the centrality of social justice and the limits of criminal justice.
Works for Freedom website launched
We have relaunched our free Works for Freedom practitioner website. It is simpler, cleaner and more interactive, placing an emphasis on sharing information on what makes for good practice. www.worksforfreedom.org
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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Press Release: Coalition commitment to protect civil liberties and roll back state intrusion is unfulfilled argue criminal justice experts. Embargo: Wednesday 7 December 2011 00:01 - The Coalition government's promise to "reverse the substantial erosion of civil liberties and roll back state intrusion" has remained unfulfilled, according to a wide-ranging review of its criminal justice policies in a new issue of Criminal Justice Matters published today (07/12/11) by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies. read more ...
Press Release: New report sheds light on violence and trauma in young people's lives. Embargo: 00.01 hours, Wednesday, November 23, 2011 - Young people convicted of serious acts of violence during their childhoods talk about their experiences of trauma and violence in a new report from the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies published today (Wednesday, November 23, 2011) (1). Based on in-depth conversations with the young people in prison and presented in their own words, the report - My Story: Young people talk about trauma and violence in their lives - offers a unique insight into the kind of severe, multiple and prolonged trauma experienced by many who while still children go on to perpetrate serious, violent acts. read more ...
Press Release: Community sentences' role in containing prison growth questioned by new report - Embargo: 00.01 hours, Monday, August 1, 2011 - As the population in custody in England and Wales hits a record high (1), a new report from the Centre for Crime and Justice studies (2) questions the role of community sentences in controlling or reducing prison numbers. Community sentences: a solution to penal excess? (3) argues that there are inherent limits to what community sentences can achieve beyond relatively minor adjustments to the numbers in custody. read more ...
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cjm 86 - Criminal justice under the Coalition
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Reform sector strategies
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