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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 approach.
Helen Mills, Research Associate at the Centre, who chaired our recent event on Portugal’s health-based approach to drug-taking, said:
Helen Mills, Research Associate at the Centre, writes in Scottish Herald about UK drug policy. The article was informed by the Centre's recent event on a health-led response to drugs. She writes:
Helen Mills suggests that a broader perspective is needed when tackling increasing prison numbers
We need to ask uncomfortable questions about the response that convicted sexual offenders receive in the community says Helen Mills
This essay collection highlights how women facing criminalisation and gender based violence are repeatedly failed by society.
Helen Mills on the potential of generationFIVE, an initiative to end child sexual abuse in five generations.
Last week was the first meeting for Alternatives to Custody in Europe, one of the Centre's latest projects. Helen Mills, Research Associate at the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, outlines some of definitional issues in this work.
Helen Mills assesses the Community Order and Suspended Sentence Order
Helen Mills highlights the contradictions and tensions for organisations in a funding climate that prioritises ‘crime reduction’ and short-termism
Helen Mills examines the role of a housing support charity in this process
