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Dos and don'ts in criminal justice
Debates about criminal justice and penal reform usually focus, rightly, on policies, structures and the issues of the moment – the prison population, sentencing, rehabilitation, drugs, terrorism,...
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What are the challenges facing an incoming government?
On 23 September the Centre held a panel discussion at Birkbeck University on the challenges facing an incoming government.
We brought together David Faulkner, former senior civil servant at...
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Expertise and evidence in government and criminal justice
Governments have often had difficulty with expert advice, whether the subject (among recent examples) has been climate change, the culling of badgers, flood defences, the effects of the work...