Gavin Wilkinson on how the economic turmoil in 1970s Britain contributed to pushing people into the criminal justice system and mental health services
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Analysis and comment on current developments by the Centre's staff, supporters and associates
Monday, 03 June, 2019
Mike Guilfoyle recalls his supervision of 'Mason'
Thursday, 30 May, 2019
Roger Grimshaw examines the government consultation on a public health duty to address serious violence
Tuesday, 14 May, 2019
Roger Grimshaw comments on the latest briefing from the College of Policing
Wednesday, 08 May, 2019
The state exemplifies the failure to understand how structural, cultural, institutional and personal forms of racism and discrimination intersect and manifest in black people’s experience of everyday life, says Professor Gus John on the aftermath of the Macpherson Inquiry
Monday, 06 May, 2019
This month Mike Guilfoyle offers a glimpse of how probation officers, in practice, supervise and help to rehabilitate those convicted of sex offences
Thursday, 25 April, 2019
The unthinking acceptance of prisons as inevitable social institutions is preventing us from thinking beyond them, argues Richard Garside
Thursday, 18 April, 2019
Co-editor of the latest edition of the Prison Service Journal, Charlotte Weinberg, introduces the rationale behind the journal's theme of prisons in crisis
Wednesday, 03 April, 2019
Laura Cooper on a new report highlighting disturbing trends around disproportionality in the youth justice system
Monday, 01 April, 2019
Mike Guilfoyle remembers working with Paola