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Today we have published a second edition of the Usual Suspects, a report looking at the best available indicators of joint enterprise prosecutions and convictions for over a decade.

The Centre for Crime and Justice today called for the use of electronic monitoring (so-called “tagging”) as part of a criminal justice sanction to be based on proper evidence and guided by clear principles.

We have produced this briefing for parliamentarians, to inform debates on the Justice Committee report on Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence.

The House of Commons Justice Committee report on the open-ended Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence is a step in the right direction, but there is some way to go.

Prisoners serving IPP (Imprisonment for Public Protection) prison sentences, beyond the length set by the court – the so-called ‘tariff’ – should be released “without delay”, the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies says today.