Comment

Richard Garside welcomes the closure of some old prisons

Defining what crime is and is not is rather more complex than at first appears

Lee Bridges on Louise Casey's recent paper 'Ending the justice waiting game'

Giving prisoners the vote is right but is far from the most pressing challenge

Contrary to complaints, the police have done well out of the spending review

Downing Street could do with developing a sense of humour

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