Assessing the General Election manifestos
The Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat General Election manifestos propose more than 100 crime and justice-related policies between them.
The Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat General Election manifestos propose more than 100 crime and justice-related policies between them.
Michael Gove is the latest politician to accept that we lock up too many people in prison.
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...
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...
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...
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...
An article published by The Economist recommends that Michael Gove looks to Scotland for examples of 'progressive' prison policy.
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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...
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...
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,...
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...