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An unsurprising disappointment?
Helen Mills assesses the Community Order and Suspended Sentence Order
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Policy, purpose, and pragmatism: dilemmas for voluntary and community organisations working with black young people affected by crime
Helen Mills highlights the contradictions and tensions for organisations in a funding climate that prioritises ‘crime reduction’ and short-termism
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A life sentence really? The resettlement of ex-prisoners with convictions for sexual offences
Helen Mills examines the role of a housing support charity in this process
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Is penal reform working? Community sentences and reform sector strategies
Helen Mills and Rebecca Roberts consider the opportunities and challenges for progressive penal reform followed by responses from George Mair, Jamie Bennett and Mick Ryan.
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The 'alternative to custody' myth
Helen Mills questions claims that community sentences cut prison numbers.
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Justice matters for women: lifting the lid on Pandora's box
Helen Mills and Rebecca Roberts outline some of the thinking behind the Justice Matters for Women project In January this year the Prime Minister, David Cameron, was questioned by the House of Common's Liaison Committe e on the issue of violence against women. In his responses, Cameron emphasised...
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Talking about unimaginable things to make them visible
'Dauntingly good',
was the description Laurel Townhead at Women in Prison, who is working...
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UK Justice Policy Review: Volume 3
The third in an annual series by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, supported by the Hadley Trust, tracking year-on-year developments in criminal justice and social welfare across the UK. Combining analysis of the main developments with key data on issues such as spending, staffing and the...
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Taking a downsizing agenda for women forward: The challenges
Previous posts in this series have identified various limitations of the criminal justice system for women in keeping with the Centre’s analysis that:
- Current responses to ...
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Addressing violence against women beyond criminal justice
What would you do if he hit you?
Asked the midwife at an antenatal check up. I won’t go into what I said exactly, but the midwife picked up on what I didn’t say...
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Criminal justice and reducing the harms women face - lifting the lid on Pandora’s box
Prime Minister David Cameron was recently questioned by the House of Common’s Liaison Committee on the...
Justice Matters for Women
What is Justice Matters for Women about?
Criminal justice fails women.
Current responses to criminalised women are seriously flawed and harmful to women. Prioritising the criminal justice system in our response to violence against women has undermined the development of more effective ways to address the harms women face.