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File on Four covers probation privatisation
Yesterday BBC Home Affairs correspondent Danny Shaw investigated the government's plans to privatise…
What's going on with the crime rate?
There has been a lot of discussion over recent months about the ongoing decline in the official crime rate.
Tagging - from criminal justice to 'social care'?
Journalist Kate Belgrave offers a run down of recent press announcements and the worrying expansion of…
Government policy 'inhumane' and 'dysfunctional'
The offender management system in prisons in England and Wales is dysfunctional and should be subject to a…
Let them make phone calls...
The National Audit Office (NAO) praises three new prisons built by the National Offender Management Service,…
UK's reputation for respecting the rule of law at risk
In his latest comment piece on the Centre's website, 
Why are we obsessed with Criminal obsessions?
Criminal obsessions: why harm matters more than crime, published back in 2008, is still hitting the top…
Grayling: 'If you break the law you will be punished'
In a bid to improve 'public confidence' in the criminal justice system, Justice Minister Chris Grayling has…
What's so special about you?
Back in 2005, the then MP for Henley Boris Johnson wrote in 
Ebulletin - November 2013
What have we been up to?
Telling right from wrong
Ministers becoming ‘queasy’ about ongoing scrutiny of tagging companies
Children are being denied basic rights, according to report
The State of Children's Rights in England report has accused the Government of overlooking the rights of…
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