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What's going on with joint enterprise?
Joint enterprise refers to the principles governing how more than one person can be held responsible for the same crime relating to a single incident.
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Planning for the future
The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies has been operating without a formal strategy for over a year, with lockdown disrupting our normal planning cycle.
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Matt Ford at joint enterprise protest
Last week our reseach analyst Matt Ford attended the campaign organisation JENGbA's demonstration against the joint enterprise doctrine in Parliament Square.
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Government still not recording joint enterprise cases
Ten years ago the House of Commons Justice Select Committee set up an inquiry into the common law doctrine of joint enterprise after concerns were raised about its operation in the courts.
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Joint enterprise
Joint enterprise refers to legal principles on the use of the law of complicity.
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What's happening in joint enterprise cases now?
A few weeks ago my colleague Helen announced our new project on joint enterprise and briefly covered the activities we’ll be carrying out over the next 15 months.
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New project on Joint Enterprise
The Centre has begun a new initiative on joint enterprise.
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Stories of Injustice: The criminalisation of women convicted under joint enterprise laws
It is nearly five years since we published Dangerous associations: Joint enterprise, gangs and racism, a report which came from the collaborative project between researchers and campaigners at JENGbA and CCJS.
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New report: Joint enterprise and the criminalisation of women
A new report by Becky Clarke and Dr Kathryn Chadwick details the criminalisation of women convicted under joint enterprise laws.
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Dangerous Associations: The documentary
Over four years since we published Dangerous associations: Joint enterprise, gangs and racism, by Becky Clarke and Patrick Williams, filmmaker Colin Stone has drawn on this research to create a documentary on joint enterprise.
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Our research on joint enterprise cited
Joint Enterprise was back in the news last week with an article by Harry Stopes, which cites our work on racism, joint enterprise and gangs.
In January 2016, we co-produced research with Becky Clarke and Patrick Williams from Manchester Metropolitan University and the organisations Black Training and Enterprise Group...
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Our research referenced in parliament
Our research on the toxic combination of racist 'gang' stereotyping by the police and unfair joint enterprise convictions, published last year, was referenced earlier...