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Justice Matters for Sadiq Khan
Our Director Richard Garside has welcomed the news that Mayor of London Sadiq Khan will invest the money made from selling three second-hand water cannons in youth services....
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Comment on 'elder abuse' data
Our director, Richard Garside, is quoted in The Times today (subscription required), commenting on new data on the abuse of elderly people, which has been uncovered by...
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Justice matters in Cardiff too!
Earlier this month Helen Mills and Rebecca Roberts of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies visited Cardiff Met University to facilitate our Justice Matters: Creating change workshop.
A group of students and practitioners studying the Youth and Community Practice course took...
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New Justice Matters toolkit - building social justice alternatives
On Thursday 17 March 2016, Will McMahon (Deputy Director) and Rebecca Roberts (Senior Policy Associate) will be attending the Howard League conference at the University of Oxford to talk about the Centre's Justice Matters initiative. They will be presenting a prototype...
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Establishing new terrains of justice
On 19 January 2016 I attended an exciting workshop as part of the Justice Matters initiative, run by Will McMahon and Rebecca Roberts over at the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies.
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Reclaim Justice Network calls for moratorium on prison building
On 9 November 2015, the British Government announced a ‘prison building revolution’, committing to the construction of nine new prisons across England and Wales.
The...
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Supporting young people with neurodevelopmental impairment
This report, by Dr Pratiba Chitsabesan, a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, and Dr Nathan Hughes of the University of Birmingham, discusses the over-representation of young people with...
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Stop treating brain injury as a crime problem, new report
The youth justice system has become the primary service provider to a large number of young people with brain injuries and other brain impairments, according to a new report published today by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies.
The report –...
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New report on racism and policing in Britain
A new report by the Runnymede Trust brings together academics, practitioners and activists to examine the state of policing and its...
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Is criminal justice reform obsolete?
On 19 November 2015, the Centre hosted an academic roundtable discussion - 'Is criminal justice reform obsolete?'. We heard from Dr Bree Carlton (Monash University, Australia) and Dr Erica Meiners (Northeastern Illinois University, USA). They explored the relationships between reform,...
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I would build… a society where all women are safe from male violence
Two women a week in the UK are murdered at the hands of a partner or ex-partner – a statistic that hasn’t changed for over a decade. Two women a week.
Include other male family...