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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...