Publications
Most of our publications are available online for free. If you would like to purchase a hard copy of a publication please click here or follow the link for our current special offers on hard copy publications. Please note that these publications are listed in order of publishing and are only the more recent, for older publications, please visit our archive
- Reducing the numbers in custody: looking beyond criminal justice solutions
Helen Mills and Rebecca Roberts (January 2012) - This is the second and final paper in the Reform Sector Strategies project funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. Click here to download the report and the press release. - Young adults in transition: local matters, national implications
Danny Dorling and Richard Garside (November 2011) - This briefing looks at factors affecting young adults in three areas of England covered by the Transition to Adulthood T2A pilots. Click here to download the report and the press release. - Young adults in transition: the local picture in national context
Danny Dorling and Richard Garside, additonal research by Melinda Kerrison (November 2011) - This briefing looks at how household location affects young adult life chances and how this has developed over time. Click here to download the report and the press release. - My Story: Young people talk about the trauma and violence in their lives
Roger Grimshaw (November 2011) - This publication sheds new light on the experiences of young people convicted of grave crimes as children, who tell their stories in their own words. Click here to download the report and the press release. - Community sentences: a solution to penal excess?
Helen Mills (July 2011) - This paper examines the use of community sentences as a mechanism for reducing reliance on custody in England and Wales since the late 1990s. Click here to download the report and the press release. Click here to download the report and the press release. - Doing justice locally: the North Liverpool Community Justice Centre
Professor George Mair and Dr Matthew Millings (February 2011) - This research project examines the changes brought about at the North Liverpool Community Justice Centre - the first and the most ambitious site of community justice in the UK. Click here to download the report and the press release. - Lessons for the Coalition: an end of term report on New Labour and criminal justice
Edited by Arianna Silvestri (January 2011) - An authoritative, independent assessment of New Labour's performance in key areas of criminal justice between 1997 and 2010, including how laws and policies impacted on practice and research. Click here to download the report and the press release. - Magistrates' courts' and Crown Court expenditure, 1999-2009
Dr Roger Grimshaw and Helen Mills, with Arianna Silvestri and Felicia Silberhorn-Armantrading (September 2010) - This is the third of a series of briefings on criminal justice spending supported by the Hadley Trust. Spending on the criminal courts rose to a billion pounds despite staffing cuts of 12 per cent over the past three years. Click here to download the publication. - Prison and probation expenditure, 1999-2009
Helen Mills, Arianna Silvestri and Roger Grimshaw with Felicia Silberhorn-Armantrading (July 2010) - This is the second of a series of briefings on criminal justice spending supported by the Hadley Trust. Spending on the prison and probation system in England and Wales has grown by 36 percent in real terms since 2004 despite a major reorganisation that was meant to save money. Click here to download the publication. - Family intervention projects: a classic case of policy-based evidence
David Gregg (June 2010) - This briefing argues that the evidence based accumulated from evaluations of the Family Intervention Projects was systematically distorted by New Labour and led to the coercion of vulnerable families with significant social problems. Click here to download the publication. - Police expenditure 1999-2009
Helen Mills, Arianna Silvestri and Roger Grimshaw (May 2010) - One of a series of briefings on criminal justice spending supported by the Hadley Trust, this first independent study of police authority spending over the last decade found that expenditure grew in real terms from £9.83 billion in 1998/1999 to £14.55 billion in 2008/2009. Click here to download the publication. - From criminal justice to social justice: rethinking approaches to young adults subject to criminal justice control
Richard Garside (March 2010) - Richard Garside makes the case for interventions with young adults that place social justice, not criminal justice, at their heart. Click here to download the publication - Comparing coercive and non-coercive interventions
Professor James McGuire (February 2010) - This briefing considers the evidence that continuing the use of coercive measures for under-18s is not effective in reducing crime. Click here to download the publication. - Probation Resources, Staffing and Workloads 2001-2008 Revised edition
Dr Mark Oldfield and Dr Roger Grimshaw with Richard Garside and Felicia Silberhorn-Armantrading (February 2010) - Our revised version of the report issued in 2008 clarifies the budgetary and staffing crisis that has been confronting the Probation Service. Click here to download the publication. - Risky people or risky societies? Rethinking interventions for young adults in transition
Richard Garside (December 2009) - In this briefing Richard Garside, the Centre's director, critiques policies informed by risk factor analysis that seek to prevent crime by intervening early in the lives of troubled children. He also proposes a different way to think about risk as a social force rather than an individual pathology. This is the first of three briefings the Centre is publishing as part of its contribution to the Transition to Adulthood Alliance, supported by the Barrow Cadbury Trust. Click here to download the publication. - Estimating drug harms: a risky business?
Professor David Nutt (October 2009) - In this briefing, which is an edited transcript of the 2009 Eve Saville lecture, Professor Nutt discusses drug regulation and control, drugs politics and suggests a way forward on the drugs debate. Click here to download the publication. - Social harm and crime at a global level
Dr David Roberts (September 2009) - This briefing argues that while much of international relations policy focuses on terrorism and civil war, the real threats to human security lie elsewhere, like in the lack of clean water. Click here to download the publication. - Young people, knives and guns (executive summary)
Arianna Silvestri, Mark Oldfield, Peter Squires and Roger Grimshaw (September 2009) - This Executive Summary details rigorous and independent international evidence over the period 1998-2008 in order to assess critically the effectiveness of anti-weapons interventions and policies. Click here to download the publication. - Crime is in the air: air pollution and regulation in the UK
Reece Walters (September 2009) - This briefing highlights the human costs of air pollution and failed attempts to adequately regulate and control such harm. Click here to download the publication. - Policy, purpose and pragmatism:
Helen Mills (June 2009) - This report explores the experience of voluntary and community organisations (VCOs) that are predominantly working with black young people affected by crime in England. Click here to download or purchase the publication. - Young people, knives and guns
Arianna Silvestri, Mark Oldfield, Peter Squires and Roger Grimshaw (June 2009) - This review of international studies provides an analysis and critique of anti-gun and knife crime strategies which have targeted young people over the decades 1998-2008. Click here to download the publication. - Partners or Prisoners? Voluntary sector independence in the world of commissioning and contestability
Arianna Silvestri (June 2009) - 'Partners or Prisoners? Voluntary sector independence in the world of commissioning and contestability', a Centre for Crime and Justice Studies report on the voluntary sector's involvement in the criminal justice system. To download the report click here. - The Community Order and the Suspended Sentence Order Three Years On: The views and experiences of probation officers and offenders
George Mair and Helen Mills (March 2009) - This report analyses the use of Community Orders and Suspended Sentence Orders since they were implemented in April 2005. Please click here to download the report.
For older publications, please visit our archive