The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies has welcomed calls by the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) for ‘the personal possession and the use of all illegal drugs to be decriminalised’, and for a new strategy to be developed to deal with drug harms modelled on the Portuguese harm reduction...
Helen Mills, Research Associate at the Centre, writes in Scottish Herald about UK drug policy. The article was informed by the Centre's recent...
Since his appointment in May, several predictions have been made about the kind of Justice Secretary Michael Gove will be. Expanding the role for the private sector in delivering criminal justice...
The scale of child sexual abuse revealed by numerous investigations, case reviews and scandals in recent years has rightly provoked critical social reflection. Part of the government’s...
'There is a real issue here about how was it that in the past, but continuing today, the very institutions of the state that should be protecting children were not doing so. Why
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Last week, I was delighted to meet our seven collaborators in the new Alternatives to Custody in Europe project in Rome. Ahead...
