Comment
Race, class and the scandal of school exclusions
Our prisons are awful places.
Publication
Understanding the riots
To make sense of last summer's riots it is important to put them in historical perspective. A comparison with the 1981 riots in Brixton, Liverpool and elsewhere and with the 2001 riots in Bradford and nearby towns reveals two shifts. The concerns of the rioters have shifted from a clear response to...
Publication
Truth and lies about 'race' and 'crime'
Will McMahon and Rebecca Roberts consider ethnicity, harm and crime.
News
New report on racism and policing in Britain
A new report by the Runnymede Trust brings together academics, practitioners and activists to examine the state of policing and its...
Comment
Black lives matter
In the last year, the USA has been shaken by the deaths of a number of black people at the hands of local police forces. A social movement has grown up around these deaths that has adopted the...
News
#BlackLivesMatter: Criminal Justice Matters magazine out
The latest issue of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies' magazine, Criminal Justice Matters, is now available to view in full on our website and includes a special...
Publication
Racial profiling
The recent spate of police killings in Ferguson, Missouri and other cities in the USA have once again highlighted police violence and racial profiling. The shooting of Michael Brown in August 2014, and subsequent protests, speak to the longstanding and widespread abuse of police powers. The...
Publication
Quantifying the ethnic penalty
It's common to hear people talk about how we now live in a ‘post-racial’ society, where merit and effort determine the extent to which people are able to meet their basic needs and achieve their potential. Indeed, this argument is often invoked to counter proponents of positive discrimination. Here...
Publication
Racism and criminal justice
In February 2015 I had the privilege of participating in a conference on ‘ Police Corruption, Racism and Spying ' from which many of the papers in this issue of cjm originate. We heard powerful accounts of the shape and impact of policing activities. One of the core themes was the role that racism...
Publication
‘Keeping it real’: the experiences of black youth beyond criminal (in)justice statistics
Official government figures continually inform us that a disproportionate and increasing number of black males, including those aged 18 and under, are being stopped and searched by the police and imprisoned. Unsurprisingly, prison population data as of 30 June 2013 showed that there were 10,000...
Publication
The extent of conflict between being black and being British. A cautionary tale of a stigmatised minority
In a recent radio programme, a group of workers lamented the fact that black youngsters did not have role models and might be suffering a number of difficulties because of this. In a brief moment the general problem was identified but there was a sense of hopelessness regarding the solution. The...
Publication
Editorial
In the last year, the USA has been shaken by the deaths of a number of black people at the hands of local police forces. A social movement has grown up around these deaths that has adopted the slogan 'black lives matter’. Fuelled by mobile phone coverage and circulated on social media, there are...