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Major conference on prison abolition in May 2019

The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies and the Harm & Evidence Research Collaborative at The Open University, in partnership with Professor Joe Sim of Liverpool John Moores University, will be holding a major conference on prison abolition in the UK in 2019.

The conference will be on Thursday 23 and Friday 24 May, at The Open University campus in Milton Keynes.

The prison system in the UK is in ongoing, systemic crisis. While politicians pay lip service to the need to reduce prisoner numbers, further growth and expansion are far more likely...

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Public health model to reduce youth violence

Last Thursday, parliament held a debate, 'Public health model to reduce youth violence'.

The Home Office released its Serious Violence Strategy earlier this year aiming to take a public health approach to violence. London...

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New publication out today

The Centre is pleased to publish J M Moore's report, Downsize, build, transform: An assessment of the Justice Matters workshops.

The report provides the results of semistructered interviews of participants who took part in the workshops that made up part of our Justice Matters project.

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The Centre's Research Fellow at RebLaw 2018

The Centre's Research Fellow, Connor Woodman, spoke at Rebellious Lawyering (RebLaw) 2018 last weekend, to an audience of students, lawyers, organisers and researchers from across the UK.

Connor spoke on 'Spycops: The future for the Undercover Policing Inquiry' which was based on his two forthcoming reports investigating the history of political policing in the UK and how the state has sought to constrain and undermine dissent against racism, patriarchy and class through...

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End child imprisonment

The Centre is delighted to be part of a new collaborative campaign to end child imprisonment.

Launching at an event last Thursday at the House of Lords, the campaign supports approaches that prioritise children’s needs, safety and futures, and advocates for the closure of child prisons in England and Wales.

We look forward to working with our colleagues at organisations including...

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New publications on undercover policing

Over the past year, we have hosted a Research Fellow, Connor Woodman, sponsored by the Barry Amiel & Norman Melburn Trust.

The Centre is today publishing two papers on undercover policing Connor has written as part of this Fellowship, under the title Spycops in context.

From 1968-2008 a dedicated police...

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This week in the news

The Centre has had a busy week after releasing our latest report - Young people, violence and knives - a briefing evaluating different approaches to addressing knife violence.

The report has received coverage in The Guardian, the...

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Young people, violence and knives - latest report out now

Attempts to punish and prosecute our way out of knife violence are doomed to failure, according to a new report from the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies.

The report – Young people, violence and knives – finds that police-led interventions and tougher sentencing have, at best, been ineffective and at...

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It's been two years. What next for Community Plan for Holloway?

On Tuesday, we held the two-year anniversary event for the Community Plan for Holloway.

The meeting brought together 150 people from the local community to discuss the victories so far and future plans.

The speakers were:

Will McMahon - Community Plan for Holloway
Steve Fox - Manalo and White architects
Andy Bain - Islington Homes for All

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We're recruiting a Business Associate

We're looking for someone who is highly organised, with excellent verbal and written communications skills to provide effective coordination and administration of all the Centre’s day-to-day organisational functions.

Tasks include facilities, office, finance and HR management, and to facilitate the smooth running of the organisation and of its facilities, maintaining ICT, administering the membership scheme, contacts database and finances.

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Holloway sale faces further delay

The sale of the Holloway prison site faces yet another delay, the Islington Tribune reports. A buyer for the site now won’t be in place until at least the new year.

The news came when a Centre for Crime and Justice Studies staff member asked a question about the timetable for the sale at a Ministry of Justice event last week.

The prison closed over two years ago and the land has been sitting empty ever since, despite having the capacity to...

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Centre's analyst gives talk to planning students

On Monday and Wednesday our Research Analyst, Matt Ford, was at the Hilldrop Community Centre in Islington giving talks about our Community Plan for Holloway project to University College London (UCL) students on the Urban Design and City Planning Masters course.

The days were organised by Omar Sherif, one of the planners we have been working closely with as part of the project. He has coordinated a unit on the Holloway site at UCL.

Up to 40 people attended each event and asked interesting questions about the site. The next step for the students...