Roger Grimshaw (Research director) was guest speaker at the AGM of the South West London branch of the Magistrates' Association on 5 April, on the subject of 'Challenges in criminal justice: an independent perspective'.
We held an event at our offices to share the findings from the first stage of the Reform Sector Strategies project. The project intends to generate a forward looking dialogue about the development of coherent and credible approaches to tackle penal expansion and think through the challenge of...
Download the presentation Helen Mills and Rebecca Roberts gave today at our Reform Sector Strategies event.
Shock at the announcement of the winners of the government contracts: out of 40 contracts worth between £3bn and £5bn only two have been given to not-for-profit groups. 'Is this Big Society?',...
A better understanding of the way the brain works could help us create a better legal system says neuroscientist David Eagleman.
Research demonstrates that memory is highly suggestible so many methods have been introduced to reduce the possibility of mistaken identity. 'Psychologists are continuing to refine and develop these areas'...
Teachers will be given investigation powers including confiscating pupils' mobile phones and searching mobile phones for evidence of cyber-bullying.
Education Secretary Michael Gove also said that that the number of no-notice inspections will increase. The Daily Mail...
The recommendations of a panel headed by David Norgrove include time limits for family justice cases to help children involved in their parents' divorcing process; mediation...
Corporate Watch has published a new briefing: Immigration Prisons: Brutal, Unlawful and Profitable.
UK and US figures show the correlation between prison numbers and crime rates is far from clear, writes Richard Garside in The Guardian.
Using the colour of a person's skin to seek explanations for criminal behaviour is racist claptrap, writes Richard Garside in The Guardian.
Responding to calls by the National Association of Headteachers for mephedrone to be banned, Professor David Nutt, chair of the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs (ISCD) said:
'I support the Home Secretary's position that a rush into classifying mephedrone is premature
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