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UK Justice Policy Review bonanza!
There's only one month to go until our all-day conference, 'Criminal justice since 2010. What happened? What next?' on Monday 23 March. It forms part of our Uk Justice Policy Review...
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Justice Matters for young black men
On Wednesday 28 January we held an event, 'Justice Matters for young black men: tackling the ethnic penalty'. About 40 people came together to discuss the social context that forms the backdrop to the disproportionate and harmful punishment...
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How corrupt is Britain?
Dr David Whyte of the University of Liverpool brings together a wide range of leading commentators and campaigners, offering a series of troubling answers, in his forthcoming book to be released on 20 March 2015 and published by...
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Police corruption, racism and spying conference on film
On Friday 5 and Saturday 6 February 2015, the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies and The Monitoring Group held the 'Police corruption, spying and racism' conference at Conway Hall, London. The video footage from many of the sessions are now available to view online via...
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Top criminology articles available free to view
Journal publishers Taylor and Francis have made their most read 2014 criminology articles available free to view on their website.
Articles from our magazine, Criminal Justice Matters, have been made available as part of this offer and can be linked to below;
- Corporate crime? Jenny Chambers reports on systemic ...
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Home Secretary to launch review into welfare of immigration detainees
Theresa May is to launch an independent review into the welfare of immigration detainees, The Guardian reports. The review will be led by former prisons and...
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March issue of The British Journal of Criminology available now!
The March 2015 issue of The British Journal of Criminology (volume 55, issue 2) is available now via The Oxford University Press website (subcription only).
The issue includes articles by:
- Ingrid Lander, ...
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Chief Inspector of Probation resigns over conflict of interest
Paul McDowell has resigned as chief inspector of probation in England and Wales after a long conflict of interest dispute, reports PoliticsHome. Last year it was...
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MPs call for end to detention of mentally ill people in police cells
A report by the Home Affairs Select Committee has called for an end to the detention of people sectioned under the Mental Health Act in police cells, reports BBC News. Over 6,000 adults and 200 children with mental health...
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Our January 2015 eBulletin now available
WHAT HAVE WE BEEN UP TO?
Police racism and spying in the spotlight
Baroness Doreen Lawrence is one of a number of brilliant speakers we and The Monitoring Group have lined up for our joint conference on police corruption, racism and spying. Read what the...
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The Guardian covers our conference on police racism
Our forthcoming conference with The Monitoring Group, on police corruption, spying and racism, is covered in today's Guardian.
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Best from the brainboxes
Here's a selection of the best stuff we've read this month written by academics:
An entire virtual issue of the Howard Journal of Criminal Justice on the theme...