Richard Garside

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

Unnecessary criminalisation and policing responses are the cause of more harm than good
Government and opposition are more comfortable with the failed policies of the past
Speech at the University of Kent on current developments in criminal justice
Dysfunctional social arrangements are a key driver of a bloated criminal justice system
Michael Gove should leave out the God-talk
Cuts to the police are an opportunity to rebalance public policy
The solicitors boycott shows how austerity can make for some surprising political choices
The fourth in an annual series assessing UK criminal justice developments
Police recorded crime will remain compromised for as long as the police collate the data
How might police numbers fall in the future, and what it will mean?
Further budgets cuts will not do irreparable damage to the police
Why do the latest crime data contradict themselves and what does it mean?