Publication
Assessing the General Election manifestos
This UK Justice Policy Review Focus scrutinises some key manifesto pledges in the area on the police, prisons and drugs policy
Comment
Tough talk costs lives
Michael Gove is the latest politician to accept that we lock up too many people in prison.
'It is an inconvenient truth – which I swerved to an extent while in office – that we send too...
News
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...
News
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...
Comment
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...
Comment
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...
News
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...
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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...
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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,...
News
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...
Publication
Community sentences since 2000
This report is published under our Alternatives to Custody in Europe project, which takes a detailed look at alternatives across eight EU member states. The report outlines the key policy developments since 2000 in our prison population and use of alternatives, in all three UK jurisdictions. It...