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The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies hosted a roundtable event today to consider the existing knowledge about interventions and policies that prevent violence against women and girls. Held as part of our Justice Matters for Women initiative, the...
We're delighted to announce that Catherine Heard has joined the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies as Research and Policy Associate. Her main responsibility will be to lead the Centre's work on the...
On November 17 we held an event entitled ‘Prisoners and looked after children – a common cause?’.
The roundtable was full to capacity, with many delegates representing organisations working directly with people in need. The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies' Research Director, Roger Grimshaw, presented the case for a new social policy on poverty that introduces a principle of reparation...
Votes for prisoners, a ban on strip searches and solitary confinement, and regular private family visits are just three of the recommendations in a new report aimed at improving prison standards across the European Union. The report, ...
Two weeks ago our Director, Richard Garside, wrote to Andrew Selous MP, the Minister for prisons, probation and rehabilitation, about the government's secure college proposal.
The...
The October 2014 edition of our ebulletin
On 22 October the Centre held an event which aimed to stimulate debate about alternatives to policing in Britain. Professor Tim Hope of the University of Salford, and Dr Waqas Tufail of the University of Liverpool, led the discussion by introducing papers outlining which functions the police...
This is the latest update on Justice Matters, the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies' three year initiative promoting radical alternatives to criminal justice.
Imran Khan said at our recent...
Following a letter published last week in the Daily Telegraph against the 'warehousing' of young people, we were one of a number of organisations invited to attend a meeting at the Ministry of Justice on 21...
The November issue of the British Journal of Criminology (volume 54, issue 6) is now online (subscription only).
Articles include:
Staff shortages and increases in the prison population are responsible for the rise in prison suicides according to the annual report by the Chief Inspector of...
Leading lawyer and activist Imran Khan last night spoke about police corruption, surveillance and racism, as he gave the 23rd Eve Saville Memorial Lecture.
Imran started by talking about the unprovoked racist murder of Stephen Lawrence in a south London...
