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Social organisation, not the levels of crime, is the strongest influence on prison numbers

Article for a New Statesman special policy report on crime

Don't expect the austerity agenda to deliver a smaller criminal justice system

Richard Garside summarises a recent pamphlet on young adults

Richard Garside reviews 'Punishing the Poor' by Loic Wacquant

Richard Littlejohn's surprisingly thoughtful piece on Jon Venables and Robert Thompson

The crime fall is mostly down to economic, not criminal justice, factors

Richard Garside takes a long-term look at levels of income inequality

How to use a graph to disappear a problem

The poor have much shorter lives than the rich

The rich are getting richer, leaving the poor behind

Richard Garside highlights a new way to tackling income inequality: muck around with the graph…