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Under the new measures to avoid taking drivers to court, fixed penalties will be issued for using a mobile phone or not wearing a seatbelt. Motorists will be offered the opportunity to go on a driving course if they do not want to pay the fine, reports...
Wine drinkers are set to be 'dismayed' at the prospect of watered down wine now that the government has stepped up plans to rewrite EU rules. It...
The rules on fitness to stand trial are out of date and the Law Commission is recommending that ministers review the law to prevent vulnerable people suffering miscarriages of justice according to a...
According to a US study published in the Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, the general public perceives certain types of white-collar crimes as very serious and some (e.g., Ponzi...
The campaign group, Liberty, has responded to the Home Office's recent 'Go Home' campaign vans by organising another van carrying a very different message, The Guardian...
'Social death is the condition under which some people can be condemned to civil death, while the rest of us fail to care or even to notice. It is the condition under which entire groups of people may be exposed to disproportionate state violence, neglect, and/or exploitation,
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John Grayson gives the low down on the involvement of private companies in the provision of housing for asylum seekers on the Institute for Race Relations website.
'These were the sorts of labour market practices that gave rise to trade unions in the first place. Back then they had a name: exploitation'; argues Larry Elliot in ...
Criminal prosecutions for tax evasion have more than doubled in the last year. Critics have accused the exchequer of increasing the hit rate by focusing on 'small time' offenders, reports ...
Jails and prisons have become the main mental health facilities in America, reports The Economist.
The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies has launched Justice Matters, its new three year initiative to encourage fresh thinking on downsizing the criminal justice system in the United Kingdom and for developing genuine, non-criminal justice alternatives.
Check out Richard's new blog explaining the thinking behind the project.
Richard Garside has commented on a recent speech by troubled families Tsar Louise Casey.
