Dogs-DNA database
Sophisticated DNA testing will soon be used to catch the owners of dogs who fail to clean up after their pets in the Italian island of Capri; local police will have the task of collecting the...
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Sophisticated DNA testing will soon be used to catch the owners of dogs who fail to clean up after their pets in the Italian island of Capri; local police will have the task of collecting the...
Is what a judge said to a defendant just before he had to give evidence on why he had two knives in his car. Koenya Tedjame-Mortty was left `anxious and shaken' after the exchange in which the crown court judge was `rude, harsh and sarcastic' during his trial last year, the Court of Appeal was...
...could be managed by private companies from December 2011. Richard Crompton, the Chief Constable of Lincolnshire, said that the alternative was to cut the number of police officers. Some argue that private companies don't have the same policing knowledge as police staff. There are already 13...
We held an office warming party in our new home. Thanks go to Sandra Harper, who organised all the fun.
Click here to read the article in the Daily Mail.
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...