Comment

We should be cautious about expanding electronic monitoring as an ‘alternative’ to prison

Michael Gove should leave out the God-talk

Roger Grimshaw considers the implications of recent reports on young people

The Criminal Courts Charge is unfair and arbitrary

UK is yet to come to terms with the aftermath of colonialism

The 1980s council house sell-off had a big impact on crime rates

Why are the police calling for more stop and search activity for knife crime

Controversy has dogged the outgoing Police Scotland Chief Constable Stephen House

Dr Bree Carlton asks whether penal reform is as obsolete as the prison

Cuts to the police are an opportunity to rebalance public policy

Mike Guilfoyle remembers Barry who he supervised after a custodial sentence.