David Scott and Helena Gosling offer some critical reflections on ‘therapeutic community tourism’ based on their visits to residential communities
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1 July 2015
Despite claims of its potential to protect us from serious crime, we run risks if we get hooked on mass GPS tracking, argues Catherine Heard
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30 June 2015
I had an insight when reading the critical re-examination of female desistance by Roger Matthews et al., Exiting Prostitution, into some of the entrenched difficulties experienced by women wanting to exit prostitution.
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25 June 2015
Our Research and Policy Assistant, Matt Ford, points out that the Ministry of Justice is still paying huge amounts of public money to G4S and Serco for providing electronic monitoring
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16 June 2015
Claire Cain of Women in Prison invites people to march against cuts and closures of support services on 20 June.
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9 June 2015
Police recorded crime will remain compromised for as long as the police collate the data, Richard Garside argues.
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21 May 2015
The Crime Survey for England and Wales is very good at not measuring crime. A truly victim-oriented national survey needs to be established in its place, writes Professor Tim Hope
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19 May 2015
The Centre's director, Richard Garside, explores how police numbers might fall in the future, and what it will mean.
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18 May 2015
The Centre's director, Richard Garside, does not buy Police Federation claims that further budgets cuts will do irreparable damage to the police.
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14 May 2015
The Centre’s work on Alternatives to Custody (ACE) in Europe has just reached its half-way mark and has some big landmarks ahead. Catherine Heard, Research and Policy Associate at the Centre, reports.
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5 May 2015
Mike Guilfoyle tells us of his work supervising Alan, a car enthusiast