Tough talk costs lives
Michael Gove is the latest politician to accept that we lock up too many people in prison.
Impact of alternatives to custody examined
The relationship between sentencing practices and the official crime rate was discussed last week at a packed event hosted by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies.
The event – Alternatives to custody: Data and policy perspectives – was organised jointly with the...
Cameron's reforms: Asset stripping and privatisation?
The Centre's Deputy Director, Will McMahon, and Senior Policy Associate, Rebecca Roberts, have warned that David Cameron's recent speech on prison reform signals a move towards the expansion and privatisation of criminal justice, rather than a serious attempt to address the problems in the...
Cheaper and just as good?
This is the second of four pieces we are publishing, the product of a partnership with the University of Birmingham, discussing correlations between police recorded crime, criminal justice...
Digging into the data on crime and punishment
This is the first of four pieces we are publishing, the product of a partnership with the University of Birmingham, discussing correlations between police recorded crime, criminal justice activity...
Scotland's progressive prison policy
An article published by The Economist recommends that Michael Gove looks to Scotland for examples of 'progressive' prison policy.
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Can community sentences cut prisoner numbers?
Catherine Heard, Policy and Research Associate at the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, writing for the Probation Quarterly asks why the increased use of community sentences did not lead to a...
Alternatives to custody: national workshops
These workshops, held on 10 June and 23 September, aimed to explore why the UK's substantial use of alternatives to custody in recent years has had no effect on prisoner numbers. We wanted to identify examples of good practice, as...
Expanding the net of criminalisation
Catherine Heard, the Centre's Research and Policy Associate, has described how community sentences have failed to cut prisoner numbers.
In a guest blog on the CLINKS website,...
Community sentences failing to cut prisoner numbers
The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies has published a new on-line report, Community sentences since 2000. How they work – and why they have...