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"Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself..." - Jimmy Carter
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We thought this new book applying utopian thinking to questions of crime and justice looked interesting. Shame about the prize tag. Ouch! It's also due out in a more affordable ebook format.
There's a worrying story in today's Guardian claiming that the Office for National Statistics (ONS) might stop publishing official statistics on smoking, drinking,...
Our director Richard Garside argues that the British state has no business locking up children in Feltham if it is incapable of guaranteeing their welfare and safety.
We were delighted to hear that our Open University colleague Dr Deborah Drake has been awarded this year's British Society for Criminology book prize for her book...
'If you were a parent of a child in Feltham you would be right to be terrified', the chief inspector of prisons Nick Hardwick told The Independent as he...
British sugar giant Tate & Lyle imports sugar from a Cambodian-based supplier implicated in land theft, violence and child labour, according to The Guardian.
A report from the Inspectorate of Constabulary has found that 27 percent of police stop and searches it reviewed did not did not have a lawful justification. Meanwhile, policing minister Damien Green...
The Runnymede Trust has launched a new three year campaign to inspire individuals and organisations to take concerted action to tackle racial inequality, support...
The Guardian reports on a new study by Citizens Advice that found that 90 percent of benefit claimants felt unprepared for the new Universal Credit and are likely to lose out...
With the government's proposal to ban khat in the news this week, take a look at the speech Professor David Nutt gave to us in 2009 on how to measure the relative harms of different drugs. It was this speech that...
The Independent reports on new figures released in parliament indicating that over 300,000 people are employed on so-called 'zero hours'...
