Podcasts
Grenfell, justice and state-corporate crime with Steve Tombs
This is the first of our podcasts which features Steve Tombs, Professor of Criminology at the Open University. We will continue the series over the coming weeks.
Publication
Redefining criminality
This briefing by David Ellis and David Whyte is the second of two briefings the Centre has published on public attitudes to questionable conduct by the state, corporations and individuals.
News
Death penalty call for corrupt companies
Corrupt companies should face a corporate ‘death penalty’, corporate probation or public shaming, a new report from the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies proposes today. The report – Redefining Criminality...
News
Best from the brainboxes
Here's a selection of the best stuff we've read this month written by academics:
An entire virtual issue of the Howard Journal of Criminal Justice on the theme...
News
Banks fined £2 billion for Forex rigging
Dr David Whyte of Liverpool University, writing in ...
Comment
A real equality before the law
‘Rehabilitation’ is difficult to define when applied to criminal justice. Re-integration, re-settlement or re-entry are often used instead of re-habilitation. Yet all these terms imply that those...
Publication
Farepak victims speak out
Victims of the Farepak collapse are demanding compensation, better regulation and for key figures in Farepak to be held to account for their actions. Some 150,000 savers lost an estimated £50 million when the Christmas hamper scheme collapsed in October 2006. The research, carried out by Dr Basia...
Publication
Criminal obsessions: Why harm matters more than crime (2nd edition)
The contributors show how social harm relates to social and economic inequalities that are at the heart of the liberal state. This second edition of Criminal obsessions includes an additional essay by Simon Pemberton in which he develops theoretically the concept of social harm and discusses the...