Neoliberalism and the prison industrial complex
J.N. Salters writes a powerful piece on the Feminist Wire on racism and prison education in the United States.
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
1 in 7 homicides globally, and more than a third of female homicides, are perpetrated by an intimate partner.
The July issue of the BJC is available. Topics in this issue include institutional corruption, French academic exceptionalism, the moral economy of criminal justice and canteen culture.
Britain's workers have suffered more financial pain since 2008 than in any five-year period of the modern age, according to research by a leading tax think-tank that shows employees have sacrificed pay to keep their jobs. Describing this downturn as the longest and deepest slump in a century,...
Mike Guilfoyle's latest blog is now up on Works for Freedom, you can read it here
39,833 incidents of physical restraint recorded in 2011-12 with 3,000 in the ‘face down’ position.
A quote to think about:
'Crime does not exist. It is a vague shadow that we try to grasp, it is yet another altar erected by ignorance and superstition supporting brutal bullies. The victims are the poor, the large majority of unfortunate people, the unhappy.” (Molinari 1984/
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The number of deaths in care homes last year was more than 103,000 compared to 38,000 ten years ago. As a proportion of all deaths outside the...
A new report from Inquest calls for a radical overhaul of the women’s penal estate and the abolition of imprisonment for...