Comment

To make sense of recent crime trends, we should look at individual crime types

Talk of 'overall crime' is best left to crime involving overalls

Richard Garside reviews the government's Transforming Rehabilitation proposals

What has the coalition government been up to on welfare reform?

Richard Garside reviews the latest speech by the Justice Secretary

The European Court is doing its job holding the government to its commitments

Sophisticated statistical analyses require a coherent theory to explain them

Richard Garside on the problems with government research on youth crime

Five propositions for downsizing the prison estate

The prison population across the UK is growing quickly

Should social workers to be more assertive in their dealings with troubled families?

When it comes to rehabilitation, are results the only thing that matter?