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The outgoing Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), Matt Baggott, has told the BBC that his force should no longer be responsible for investigating murders by the British state and...
Our Director Richard Garside was one of more than 80 individuals and organisations who signed an open letter to the Prime Minister calling for a review of the United Kingdom's approach to illegal drugs.
The letter was organised by drugs charity Release and published yesterday as part of...
A new report out today from the House of Commons Justice Committee has called on the government to 'question whether taxpayers’ money is used in ways most likely to reduce future crime and victimisation, including evaluating that spent on custodial sentencing, and develop a longer-term strategy...
Andrew Henley, a graduate teaching assistant and PhD student at Keele University, is the worthy winner of 2014 Centre for Crime and Justice Studies essay prize.
Entrants to this year's competition were asked to write an essay of between 1,400 and 1,600 words on what criminal justice...
The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, in collaboration with Women in Prison, has issued a call to action to: Empower women, resist injustice and...
New research by Cambridge University, based on 16,000 homes, reports a housing squeeze where people are living...
The Supreme Court has ruled that past minor cautions and convictions should not have to be disclosed in criminal record checks, and in future will remain part of a protected private life, reports BBC News.
The July 2014 issue of the British Journal of Criminology (Issue 54, Vol.4) is out now (subscription only).
Articles include:
• Brunton-Smith, Jackson and Sutherland discuss the link between neighbourhood...
According to figures from UK researchers, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, the economic crisis in Europe and North America led to more than 10,000 extra suicides.
Data from 24 EU countries, the...
Prisoners are being left unfed, drugs are openly being smoked and the regime is chaotic at G4S-run Oakwood prison, according to a letter by 'a concerned relative' in the June edition of the prisoners newspaper ...
Our director Richard Garside appeared on Going Underground, Russia Today's UK current affairs programme, talking about absconding prisoners, electronic monitoring and criminal justice privatisation.
Richard argued that the vast majority of prisoners did not need to be held in high...
