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Troubled families need nurture, Louise Casey claims

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Troubled Families programme 'a cruel hoax'

Our director Richard Garside argues in h

Probation Institute announced

After several months of speculation, the Ministry of Justice

Grayling: 'If you break the law you will be punished'

In a bid to improve 'public confidence' in the criminal justice system, Justice Minister

Why are we obsessed with Criminal obsessions?

Austerity crime on the rise?

Police sources are claiming that crimes such as shoplifting and property thefts may be on the ris

Ebulletin - November 2013

Check out our monthly ebulletin for a summary of key publications, research, events and news.

What's so special about you?

Back in 2005, the then MP for Henley Boris Johnson wrote in 

On yogi bear and private security companies

We enjoyed this tweet on the perils of privatisation.

The limits of law

Lord Sumption, a Supreme Court judge, has argued in a speech that the 'expansion of the empire of

Prisoners stage rooftop protest at Oakwood prison

Six prisoners at G4S-run Oakwood prison staged a seven hour rooftop protest yesterday,

Victim blaming