Crime, Justice and the General Election. Video now out

On Monday, nearly 200 people joined our online panel discussion on the crime and justice officers in General Election manifestos. Joining our Director, Richard Garside, to discuss the good and the bad, the maybe and the meh, were:

• Ian Acheson, Visiting Professor at Staffordshire University, former civil servant and recent author of Screwed: Britain’s Prison Crisis and How To Escape It
• Phil Bowen, Director of the Centre for Justice Innovation and a former civil servant, including as a delivery adviser to the Prime Minister on criminal justice reform
• Frances Crook, co-convenor of the Commission on Political Power and former Chief Executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform
• Jo Phoenix, Professor of Criminology at the University of Reading, with an expertise in sex and gender, prostitution policy, youth justice, among other things, and a trustee of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies

They also discussed some of the distinctive policies being proposed by the Conservative, Liberal Democrats and Green Party.

Watch below or via our Youtube channel.