Press Releases
| New report challenges Coalition aim to contain prison numbers while cutting welfare. Embargo: 00.01 hours, Monday, January 23, 2012 (23/01/12) |
At a time of spending cuts and continued increases to inequality, a new report argues the prison population are likely to rise further, despite the Coalition's expressed aim to contain and manage prison numbers (1). read more ...
|
| Coalition commitment to protect civil liberties and roll back state intrusion is unfulfilled argue criminal justice experts. Embargo: Wednesday 7 December 2011 00:01 (16/12/11) |
The Coalition government's promise to "reverse the substantial erosion of civil liberties and roll back state intrusion" has remained unfulfilled, according to a wide-ranging review of its criminal justice policies in a new issue of Criminal Justice Matters published today (07/12/11) by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies. read more ...
|
| New report sheds light on violence and trauma in young people's lives. Embargo: 00.01 hours, Wednesday, November 23, 2011 (23/11/11) |
Young people convicted of serious acts of violence during their childhoods talk about their experiences of trauma and violence in a new report from the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies published today (Wednesday, November 23, 2011) (1). Based on in-depth conversations with the young people in prison and presented in their own words, the report - My Story: Young people talk about trauma and violence in their lives - offers a unique insight into the kind of severe, multiple and prolonged trauma experienced by many who while still children go on to perpetrate serious, violent acts. read more ...
|
| Community sentences' role in containing prison growth questioned by new report - Embargo: 00.01 hours, Monday, August 1, 2011 (01/08/11) |
As the population in custody in England and Wales hits a record high (1), a new report from the Centre for Crime and Justice studies (2) questions the role of community sentences in controlling or reducing prison numbers. Community sentences: a solution to penal excess? (3) argues that there are inherent limits to what community sentences can achieve beyond relatively minor adjustments to the numbers in custody. read more ...
|
| [Older Releases] |