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Violence against women - is criminal justice the answer?
Rebecca Roberts and Helen Mills comment on the Centre's Justice Matters for Women project, arguing that;
Not only does the system
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What's going on with the crime rate?
There has been a lot of discussion over recent months about the ongoing decline in the official crime rate. Yesterday's data from the Office for National Statistics suggested crime had...
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Falling crime rate not down to the police
Today's Guardian carries an editorial examing the reasons for the ongoing fall in the official crime rate.
The previous Labour government and the coalition...
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Criminology: White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant?
A couple of weeks ago we published part of the conference blurb for the forthcoming British Society of Criminology conference:
'Criminology, like other core social science disciplines, reflects a tendency to over-write the metropolitan experiences of the Northern hemisphere.
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Headline malfunction of the day
Courtesy of today's Independent.
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Greek prison system collapsing
An investigation by Associated Press has painted a grim picture of the state of the Greek prison system as the country continues to struggle with the effects of austerity:
'More than 30 men were crammed into the cell, locked up night and day for weeks or months. Without enough
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Police can't be trusted to stop and search fairly
The former Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell, who resigned from his post over the 'plebgate' affair, calls for an end to police stop and search where there are no grounds for suspicion.
Writing in The Times:
'In 2011-12 Asian or Asian British people accounted for
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Publication of submission to the Justice Committee crime reduction inquiry
In October 2013 the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies made a submission to the House of Commons Justice Committee Inquiry into crime reduction policies.
Following its publication today by the Justice Committee we are...
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Watchdog to launch inquiry into official statistics
The UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) will review the accuracy of offical data provided by schools, hospitals and other public sector bodies,...
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Probation privatisation could founder on the rocks of implementation
Our director Richard Garside argues in his latest comment piece that the government's probation privatisation plans look increasingly likely to founder on the rocks of implementation.
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Crime is infinite
Dr Nic Groombridge writes that he was only mildly surprised to read last week that the UK Statistics Authority had downgraded the ‘official’ status of the police recorded crime figures
Criminologists have long observed that crime counting rules can are are regularly bent.
He also...