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14 February 2013

Richard Garside finds reasons to be cheerful with recent trends showing that fewer young people...

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28 January 2013

Last week I posted an analysis of trends in police data over the past decade, as part of an...

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25 January 2013

What to make of the latest crime statistics.

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10 January 2013

Richard Garside reviews the government's Transforming Rehabilitation proposals and poses five...

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3 December 2012

Richard Garside summarises the early developments in the coalition government's ambitious and...

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20 November 2012

Politicians' speeches can be disappointing affairs. Eye-catching initiatives are trailed in...

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14 November 2012

For as long as I can remember there has been a debate about the declaration of criminal...

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11 July 2012

The man with a hammer tends to see every problem as a nail. By the same token, the think tank in...

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25 May 2012
Richard Garside discusses the problems with government research on youth crime.
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16 May 2012

Last week I wrote that a coherent plan of action to control and reduce the prison population in...

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9 May 2012

I’ve been tracking the UK prison population since the beginning of the year to get a sense of...

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2 May 2012

Richard Garside assess calls by Louise Casey for social workers to be more assertive in their...