News
Keeping up the pressure for joint enterprise reform
An update on recent work attempting to reduce the scope of joint enterprise laws.
News
Changing the law on joint enterprise
We are working with the Labour MP Kim Johnson, JENGbA and legal experts in a fresh attempt to narrow the scope of joint enterprise prosecution.
News
Government challenged on joint enterprise
The lack of new government action on joint enterprise was criticised in the House of Lords on Thursday.
Comment
Joint Enterprise: New data, familiar picture, old action?
On Friday the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) released the first data from the long called-for monitoring of joint enterprise prosecutions.
Comment
New monitoring of joint enterprise. What’s been agreed?
Last month the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) agreed to collect data about secondary liability (so called ‘joint enterprise’) prosecutions.
News
MPs demand answers on joint enterprise
Our research on joint enterprise convictions was cited by Kate Osamor MP in parliament yesterday.
Publication
The usual suspects second edition
The Usual Suspects uses national data to assess the use of joint enterprise laws in prosecutions for serious violence in England and Wales over the last fifteen years.
Comment
Transparency and accountability on joint enterprise still needed
This week the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies published a second edition of the Usual Suspects, a report which looks at the best available indicators of joint enterprise prosecutions and convictions for over a decade.
News
New report on joint enterprise
Today we have published a second edition of the Usual Suspects, a report looking at the best available indicators of joint enterprise prosecutions and convictions for over a decade.
News
Webinar video: Last month in criminal justice
Watch the the final episode of 'Last month in criminal justice' before the summer.
News
Parliament must address injustices of joint enterprise, new report
Six years on from a Supreme Court ruling that the laws on joint enterprise had been wrongly applied for over thirty years, new research suggests that there has been no discernible impact on joint enterprise prosecutions.
Publication
The usual suspects
The Usual Suspects uses national data to assess the use of joint enterprise laws in prosecutions for serious violence in England and Wales over the last fifteen years.