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Letter to the Evening Standard from Rebecca Roberts

Criminal justice regulates and manages underlying social antagonisms

Troubling behaviour by young people requires attention, but not that on offer by the law

Sean Roberts assesses communitarian theories

The criminal justice system is incapable of solving the broader social problems

The 'antisocial behaviour' agenda will fail to address three decades of poverty and inequality…

Are criminality and social disadvantage related?

Richard Garside is surprised to read about John Stevens' psychic powers

Those who start with prison as a solution to crime miss the more interesting

The justice process mostly punishes the poor and vulnerable

Penalty Notices for Disorder are net-widening

Attempts to control nuisance behaviour should be better at dealing with complexity