John Croft, former head of the Home Office research unit, writes about the problematic relationship between research and policy making and calls for the establishment of an independent research clearing house
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5 November 2015
Crime among young people is falling and there is no clear evidence to suggest that poverty is a driver of criminality, argues Ross Fergusson
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16 October 2015
On 18 September, the US EPA revealed that Volkswagen (VW) had been using software and practices to cheat emissions-testing on almost 600,000 cars in US – marketed and sold as part of a major ‘clean-car’ initiative. The effect is that these cars will, on the road, emit nitrogen oxide pollutants up to 40 times above legal limits.
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14 October 2015
Rebecca Roberts offers a word of caution on recent calls for a prison building programme and expansion of electronic monitoring.
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9 October 2015
Michael Gove is a refreshing change from his predecessor as Justice Secretary, Richard Garside writes. But he should leave out the God-talk.
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7 October 2015
Roger Grimshaw considers the implications of recent reports on young people.
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30 September 2015
Catherine Heard discusses the case of Nigel Allcoat, the latest magistrate to resign in protest at unaffordable and arbitrary criminal court charges.
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29 September 2015
Will McMahon highlights the embedded nature of racism. Reflecting on the US 'black lives matter' social movement, he argues the UK is yet to come to terms with the aftermath of colonialism.
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25 September 2015
The ‘right to buy’, as it became known, was introduced by the Housing Act 1980. At the time the act was heralded as giving many aspiring council tenants the right to own their own homes – something which they might never otherwise have been able to do – and, by its critics, for increasing homelessness and making affordable homes harder to achieve for many.
Certainly housing prices and homelessness have been policy concerns ever since.
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23 September 2015
Roger Grimshaw questions why the police are calling for more stop and search activity to reduce knife crime.