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Promoting knowledge

Improved knowledge and understanding are a foundation for
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.

Highlights

Event

08

Jun

June edition: Last month in criminal justice

Join us for June's episode of 'Last month in criminal justice' where we'll be joined by guests to discuss recent developments across the justice system.

Event

22

Jun

Lunch with...Khatuna Tsintsadze

The June edition of 'Lunch with...' will feature Khatuna Tsintsadze, co-director of the Zahid Mubarek Trust.

News

Parliament must address injustices of joint enterprise, new report

Six years on from a Supreme Court ruling that the laws on joint enterprise had been wrongly applied for over thirty years, new research suggests that there has been no discernible impact on joint enterprise prosecutions.

Speech

Joint enterprise prosecutions since 2016. What do we know? What needs to happen?

Speech given to JENGbA event on joint enterprise in the Houses of Parliament.

Latest commentary

Comment

Anyone else seriously fed up?

I figured this was really what Richard Garside was asking in the subtext of his recent comment piece but was clearly too polite to say so.

Comment

TV licence prosecutions discriminate against women

“I was so scared. I felt completely helpless. I was a single mum, in the pandemic, living by myself with a baby.”

Comment

Trauma-Informed Prisons: paradox or paradigm

Systemic violence refers to emotional, psychological, and physical harm from social structures, including state institutions.

Comment

"I am exercising my right not to self-incriminate"

Ned (not his real name) had been sentenced for offences of assault and criminal damage at his ex-partner’s address.

Latest news

News

Watch the video: Lunch with...Alex S.Vitale

Richard is joined by Professor Alex S.Vitale for the May episode of 'Lunch with...'

News

eBulletin, 13 May 2022

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"We should demand safety and security – but not at the hands of the police"

For our next Lunch with… programme, on Wednesday 18 May, we will be joined by the US scholar and educator Alex S. Vitale, author of the best-selling The End of Policing.

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Webinar video: Last month in criminal justice

Watch the May episode of 'Last month in criminal justice'.

News

eBulletin, 29 April 2022

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News

Parliament must address injustices of joint enterprise, new report

Six years on from a Supreme Court ruling that the laws on joint enterprise had been wrongly applied for over thirty years, new research suggests that there has been no discernible impact on joint enterprise prosecutions.

News

Webinar video: Lunch with...Charlie Weinberg

Watch our latest episode of 'Lunch with...', featuring Richard Garside in conversation with Charlie Weinberg.

News

Webinar video: Last month in criminal justice

Watch the latest episode of 'Last month in criminal justice'.