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Utopian thinking
We thought this new book applying utopian thinking to questions of crime and justice
Public health statistics could be scrapped to save money
There's a worrying story in today's Guardian claiming that the Office for National Statistics (ONS
No business locking them up
Our director Richard Garside argues that the British state has no business
And the prize goes to
We were delighted to hear that our Open University colleague Dr Deborah Drake has been awarded this year's
Parents of Feltham children 'right to be terrified'
'If you were a parent of a child in Feltham you would be right to be terrified', the chief inspector of…
Sugar supplier's bitter sweet legacy
British sugar giant Tate & Lyle imports sugar from a Cambodian-based supplier implicated in land theft,…
One quarter of police stop and searches illegal
A report from the Inspectorate of Constabulary has 
End racism this generation
The Runnymede Trust has launched a new three year campaign
Universal worries about welfare changes
The Guardian reports on a new study by Citizens Advice
From the archive: David Nutt on drug harms
With the government's proposal to ban khat in the news this week,
And your pay this week is... nothing
The Independent reports on
'What is the point of my being?'
Asks life sentence prisoner Jamie Starbuck in a letter to prisoners' newspaper Inside Time.
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