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Joint Enterprise: New data, familiar picture, old action?
On Friday the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) released the first data from the long called-for monitoring of joint enterprise prosecutions.
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The usual suspects second edition
The Usual Suspects uses national data to assess the use of joint enterprise laws in prosecutions for serious violence in England and Wales over the last fifteen years.
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Lunch with...Khatuna Tsintsadze
Watch the last episode of 'Lunch with..' in our first series, with Khatuna Tsintsadze.
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The usual suspects
The Usual Suspects uses national data to assess the use of joint enterprise laws in prosecutions for serious violence in England and Wales over the last fifteen years.
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Why haven't we heard of the Tulsa Race Massacre?
The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 saw between 39-300 people killed and 10,000 African Americans made homeless after three days of state violence.
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The prison industrial complex, racism and immigration
With the current Black Lives Matter movement in America having accelerated due to the acts of police brutality resulting in the death of George Floyd, there is another area of the criminal justice system which the movement is exposing.
The torch of truth that 2020 has allowed to shine brighter than ever before is now turning to the dark and hidden corners of the prison system. Despite the decades-long campaigns of many...
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Dangerous Associations: The documentary
Over four years since we published Dangerous associations: Joint enterprise, gangs and racism, by Becky Clarke and Patrick Williams, filmmaker Colin Stone has drawn on this research to create a documentary on joint enterprise.
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Institutional racism in the police: how entrenched has it become?
The Black Lives Matter movement has called attention, yet again, to police racism: to understand why it has become a persistent sore we need to examine how routine practices have a discriminatory effect.
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Black Lives Matter, policing and the criminal justice system
A couple of weeks ago, Adam Elliott Cooper of the University of Greenwich and The Monitoring Group, and Liz Fekete of the Institute of Race Relations, spoke about black lives matter, policing and the criminal justice system at one of our webinars.
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We can't solve our social problems through increasing the power of the police and prison system
At our webinar on socially distanced justice, Adam Elliott-Cooper from The Monitoring Group and the University of Greenwich spoke about the recent black lives matter mobilisations.
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The swirling current of criminalisation
At our webinar on socially-distanced justice yesterday, Liz Fekete of the Institute of Race Relations argued that a focus on racial disproportionalities failed to address the real causes of criminalisation of young people.
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Tackling racism in the criminal justice system
"Since 1999, there have been at least double the number of black deaths in police custody than ever before."