Short articles providing a space for women’s voices to be heard
Projects
‘Our reputation as a just nation,’ the former Supreme Court Justice Lord Brown has said, ‘demands that this IPP stain be at last eradicated.’ We are working with partners to keep up the pressure to do just this.
The immediate focus of the work is the the House of Commons Justice Committee Inquiry, announced in late 2021.
The aim of this strand of work is to share knowledge and research, and to discuss how academics, practitioners and penal reformers, can act to end this endemic abuse of the criminal justice system.
There are many examples of ways in which the criminal justice system criminalises poverty. These include:
Through these principles, multiple individuals can be convicted for an offence without taking into account their differing roles or even whether some individuals were present.
The support charity JENGbA (Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association) estimates it is currently in contact with around 1,000 prisoners convicted through joint enterprise, many of whom are subject to very lengthy prison sentences.
A former project of the Centre, championing trauma-informed practice in women’s criminal justice settings
These questions and more are explored in this major project on the United Kingdom criminal justice institutions.
Over more than a decade, through our ground-breaking UK Justice Policy Review (UKJPR) programme, we assessed criminal justice developments across the UK's three criminal justice jurisdictions: England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.
The state and its agencies have an important role to play in tackling the violence faced by young adults and a responsibility to ensure greater safety for this age group. But current approaches are one-sided. Too dominated by policies and practices that seek to police, prosecute and punish, too weak on approaches that offer lasting solutions.