Richard Garside

Richard Garside is the Director of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies.

The police remain one of the most powerful, and unaccountable, agencies in public life
Speech given to the ‘Is it a crime to be poor’ online event
Effective social distancing in prison means releasing thousands of prisoners
An opportunity to develop reasoned, evidenced and emotionally-literate policy and practice
When it comes to containing Covid in prison, there is a better way
It took a global pandemic to deliver reductions in the prison population
Enforcement alone will never address the tsunami of male violence towards women
Covid lockdown delivered falls in the prison population. It probably won’t last
There can be few better examples of misguided priorities than building more prisons
We need more youth clubs and better health provision, not more police and prisons
The ninth in an annual series assessing UK criminal justice developments
The Covid pandemic offers the potential to open up justice in new and positive ways