Comment

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

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