News
Building community safety
Ejeris Dixon has outlined the potential role of 'transformative justice' in addressing violence and harm experienced by black people in the US. Writing for the website,...
News
Sharp rise in proportion of young BME prisoners
The proportion of black and ethnic minority children and young people held in the youth justice system has increased sharply over the last decade, according to an analysis by ...
Comment
Racism, discrimination, and criminal justice
On 28 January I attended a roundtable event held at the Centre titled: 'Justice Matters for young black men: tackling the ethnic penalty'. The term ‘ethnic penalty’ in this context means the...
Speech
Justice Matters for young black men: 'There used to be a community'
Dr. Anthony Gunter from the University of East London spoke at our recent Justice Matters event. Drawing on his research he talked about young black men and fragmented communities.
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Speech
Justice Matters for young black men: the data
When I first joined CCJS I was asked to find some data on the ethnic penalty, building on my colleagues’ 2008 paper Ethnicity...
Publication
Policing the riots: from Bristol and Brixton to Tottenham, via Toxteth, Handsworth, etc
The most surprising thing about this summer's riots was the surprise that greeted them; as if we had not seen their like before. If not actually hypocritical, such surprise is disingenuous. Once poor people have exhausted what few legitimate resources they have, if feelings of anger and frustration...
Publication
The law of moments: understanding the flashpoint that ignited the riots
In his detailed review of major instances of public disorder in eighteenth and nineteenth century England, Stevenson (1979), remarks how ‘it is often possible to pinpoint a moment when things might have turned out differently’. In ‘pre-riot situations’ in which crowds ‘milled around’, indignantly...
News
New report: Young black and/or muslim men in the criminal justice system
On Wednesday 10 December, The Young Review was released and Rebecca Roberts, Senior Policy Associate attended the launch at the House of Lords. The review investigates the experiences and outcomes of young black and/or Muslim men in the...
Comment
Money on the margin: Financial exclusion and ethnicity
Over the last few weeks I have published blogs on various aspects of disadvantage for Black and minority ethnic people. The aim has been to frame discussions about the...
Comment
Employment and the 'ethnic penalty'
In my last blog I wrote about how people from black and minority ethnic groups are let down by further and higher education. Here I describe how racial discimination in the labour market is...
Comment
Post-16 education and the 'ethnic penalty'
Last time I talked about how we have seen significant improvements in outcomes in primary and secondary education for pupils from ethnic minority backgrounds. However, I also showed how black...
Comment
Primary and secondary education and the 'ethnic penalty'
In my last piece I talked about poverty and ethnicity. Here I focus on primary and secondary education. But why is education important?
Education is important in understanding...