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NCA asks volunteers to help with its war on crime
The National Crime Agency (NCA) is to sign up unpaid bankers, accountants and computer experts to help tackle the country's most serious criminals, ...
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Department for Work and Prisons?
The Transforming Rehabilitation programme opens up the prospect of the same company running employment, prison and probation services, our director Richard Garside argues in his latest post.
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Early jail release to be curtailed under government plans
Up to 600 prisoners a year are expected to be affected after Justice Secretary Chris Grayling said he...
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Regulators accused of not doing enough to curb pay day lenders
The Financial Conduct Authority has been accused of not doing enough...
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Legalise drugs and save lives
David Aaronovitch has written an opinion piece in The Times arguing that legalising drugs will reduce crime and contaminated supplies which will in turn reduce the...
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‘Earn or learn’
Young people under the age of 25 will be barred from claiming benefits unless they are studying, training or finding work under measures that a Conservative Government would seek to implement should they win the General Election in 2015. The Conservatives claim that the current system leaves...
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Google and ExxonMobile runs rings around tax laws
Prem Sikka, Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex, has written an article commenting on the tax avoidance of both Google and ExxonMobil and also proposes a solution for dealing with corporate tax avoidance. You can find the article...
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46 per cent accuracy for prison psychiatric tests
A new report published in The British Journal of Psychiatry has found that prison psychiatric assessment methods are as accurate as ‘flipping a coin’, reports...
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'Punish more' says former magistrate
Magistrate Alan Bissell has raised concerns over the current emphasis on rehabilitation over punishment in current sentencing. Meanwhile, Justice Secretary, Chris Grayling, has announced a review into all out-of-court disposals used in the criminal justice system, reports...
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Hungover police off sick?
Police officers have been accused of taking sick days in order to recover from hangovers in claims by Stephen Kavanagh, Chief Constable of Essex Police, writes The Times.
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Pensioners face a cold winter
One of the UK’s main energy suppliers has plans to get rid of its fixed-price tariff aimed at the over 60s, according to The Guardian.
E.on says that it has no choice...