Risky business
Ministry of Justice officials have warned that privatising probation carries the risk of increased reoffending, in the risk register seen by The Times and ...
Ministry of Justice officials have warned that privatising probation carries the risk of increased reoffending, in the risk register seen by The Times and ...
The Body Economic is an agenda-shaping look at the human costs of financial crisis by Sanjay Basu and David Stuckler. The Centre worked with David as part of our ‘What is Crime?’ project. The Guardian's review of...
We have a few goodbyes this month. After almost eight years with the Centre, Ed Brenton, our wonderful Office Manager is leaving CCJS in early July. We are going to miss his professionalism, wit, office sweepstakes, xmas desk decorating competition and his oft shouted office catchphrase of ‘shut...
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander yesterday pledged £100m for a new prison in North Wales. Read our director Richard Garside's...
We enjoyed Alan Titchmarsh's thoughts on the virtues of woods, in a recent piece in The Observer.
'The woods are full of bluebells, not crime, as we so
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After yesterday's leak of the Ministry of Justice's draft risk register, the Lords has...
The Centre’s director, Richard Garside, blogs on recent proposals from Policy Exchange to close old prisons and build large ‘hub prisons’, arguing that ‘this is a report reflecting the interests of the private...
If there weren't enough doubts already about the rehabilitation revolution, The Guardian and ...
J.N. Salters writes a powerful piece on the Feminist Wire on racism and prison education in the United States.
Senior Policy Associate, Rebecca Roberts, considers recent criminal justice statistics and the impact of shrinking budgets, work force and conviction figures. Is criminal justice shrinking, how are the boundaries being...
A Lancet editorial has commented on a ‘global scourge’ of initimate partner homicide and published findings from a systematic review. You can listen to a podcast about it...
Interesting piece in the ongoing Mosquito debate