Goodbye to interns Alison Quinn and Melinda Kerrison and many thanks for your work at CCJS, they are off to their third year at University of Surrey and hello to Lorenzo Del Castillo - who will be with us until the end of September 2011 as part of the European Union ERASMUS scheme. Lorenzo...
Co-operative Legal Services plan to obtain a licence to offer legal services to non-members this October. Lord Neuberger, one of the UK's most senior judges, said that `we must be careful that the legal Big Bang does not result in an equally devastating loss of respect for the legal sector and...
We will be publishing a paper on life factors that affect young people as they make their transition to adulthood. With a series of maps provided by Danny Dorling, Richard Garside (Director) and Melinda Kerrison (Project assistant intern) worked on highlighting the different life chances young...
The Justice Policy Institute of Washington DC has published an international comparison of criminal justice policies, titled Finding Direction.
Several studies have found that small reductions in income inequality cause large reductions in homicide, according to new research from the Equality Trust.
Keir Starmer QC, Director of Public Prosecutions, focuses on data, past measures, future prosecution plans, stalking and young women in a recent speech.
Professor Alex Stevens' ethnographic study examines the use that is made of evidence in government policy making - including 'fart catching'.
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In 2008 Essex police paid £22,000 for the Unmanned Autonomous System to spy on 'criminals', 'illegal migrants' and drug smugglers. Now it is for sale without once being used because it was never licensed.
In 2009-10, only two people were arrested for terrorism-related offences out of 92,000 stopped and search. 31% of people stopped (50% in London) were from ethnic minorities, according to...
Parrot poaching in Bolivia, drug manufacturing in clandestine laboratories and undercover policing in Holland. It's difficult to know where to start in the March 2011 issue of the British Journal of Criminology...
The High Court has rulled that the Metropolitan police broke the law by kettling up to 5,000 demonstrators at the G20 protests in April 2009 and that it was `unjustified' because there...
