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effective action to achieve meaningful change.

Challenging injustices

A fair, impartial and proportionate criminal justice system is important. But much about today’s justice system is unfair.

Creating change

We see transformative solutions to the problems we face as a real and present opportunity, not something only possible in an ill-defined future.

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More ambition needed on IPP reform, new report

A compassionate release programme, reparations and resentencing are among proposals in a new five-point plan from the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies to resolve the IPP crisis.

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Keeping up the pressure for joint enterprise reform

An update on recent work attempting to reduce the scope of joint enterprise laws.

Publication

How to resolve the IPP crisis for good

This report sets out a five-point plan to resolve the 21-year injustice of the Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence.

Publication

Prison Service Journal 270

This edition offers a diverse mix of articles, interviews and book reviews, on a range of themes and empirical research.

Recent commentary

Comment

Cells are not zoos

The criminal justice system has long been criticised for being a revolving door of criminalisation.

Comment

Total recall

Recall is the mechanism through which a released prisoner can be returned to prison, if they are judged to have broken the terms of their release.

Comment

Presumption against short sentences misses the point

A presumption against short prison sentences was one of a number of measures announced by the Lord Chancellor Alex Chalk this week to reduce demands on prisons.

Comment

I started to read a timely and accessible contribution to the challenges facing prisoners returning to there communities, On the Outside, a book with an emphasis on community reintegration beyond individual recidivism.

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More ambition needed on IPP reform, new report

A compassionate release programme, reparations and resentencing are among proposals in a new five-point plan from the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies to resolve the IPP crisis.

News

Keeping up the pressure for joint enterprise reform

An update on recent work attempting to reduce the scope of joint enterprise laws.

News

Parliament to debate joint enterprise reform

We have been working with the Labour MP Kim Johnson, JENGbA and legal experts in a fresh attempt to narrow the scope of joint enterprise prosecution.

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End of year bulletin and seasons greetings

Our last eBulletin of 2023, sent out to those on our mailing list on Tuesday, 19 December. Sign-up for our free eBulletins here.

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Changing the law on joint enterprise

We are working with the Labour MP Kim Johnson, JENGbA and legal experts in a fresh attempt to narrow the scope of joint enterprise prosecution.

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eBulletin, 1 December 2023

Our latest eBulletin, sent out to those on our mailing list on Friday, 1 December. Sign-up for our free eBulletins here.

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Time to consider a compassionate release programme for IPP prisoners

The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies today called on the Justice Secretary to consider a compassionate release programme for prisoners subject to the Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence.

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What's been going on with the prison population?

The House of Commons Justice Committee has published our evidence to its inquiry into the prison population and prison capacity.

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