Reports

Building on sand: Why expanding the prison estate is not the way to 'secure the future'

A critique of official accounts on what is driving prison population growth

'Gun crime' A review of evidence and policy

‘Gun Crime’ A review of evidence  says that

The community order and the suspended sentence order: The views and attitudes of sentencers

The fifth in a series of reports for our community sentences project

Street Weapons Commission: Guns, Knives and Street Violence

A review for Channel Four of the extent and nature of gun and knife violence

Crisis of enforcement: The decriminalisation of death and injury at work

Why light touch regulation has decriminalised death and injury at work

Ten years of Labour's youth justice reforms: an independent audit

An assessment of the reforms to the youth justice system over the past decade

The Use of the Community Order and the Suspended Sentence Order for Women

The fourth in a series of reports for our community sentences project

Critical thinking about the uses of research

The government is reluctant to draw on independent research

The social costs of dangerousness

The notion of dangerousness widely used but poorly understood

'Knife crime'. A review of evidence and policy (2nd Edition)

Success in tackling knife violence will mean tackling the underlying causes

Social justice and criminal justice

More than 20 authors scrutinise current criminal justice measures

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Farepak victims speak out

Report based on interviews with the victims of the Farepak collapse