On a sunny Saturday earlier this month hundreds travelled to a remote wheat field in Bedfordshire to gather outside Yarl's Wood Immigration Detention Centre and demand its closure.
As with...
A review of mental health crisis care in England and Wales by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has found that the police are regularly the first point of contact for those in mental distress....
Sir Michael Marmot of University College London, writing in The Lancet, has made the case for putting tackling health inequalities at the top of the political agenda.
In the article titled '...
On 20th May 2015, the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies and Women in Prison, held the Justice Matters for Women: Time for Action! conference.
The event was attended by over 100 people including activists, researchers, practitioners and women affected by criminal justice. The...
Betty Makoni, Chief Executive Officer of the Girl Child Network World Wide shared her inspirational story at the recent Justice Matters for Women conference in London on 20 May 2015.
You can see her powerful speech on her work as a human rights activist against gender based violence...
Last year the Home Secretary Theresa May went to the Police Federation annual conference and gave it a good kicking.
The Police Federation,...
The failures of criminal justice and the impact of imprisonment on women is highlighted in The Independent on Sunday today. The article is...
This is the latest update on Justice Matters, the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies' three year initiative promoting radical alternatives to criminal...
The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, in collaboration with the University of Liverpool, held a workshop on alternatives to prison on 21 April 2015. Attended by around 70 campaigners, academics, researchers and activists, participants were presented with the following questions: ...
Women in Prison and the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies have released the provisional agenda for the 'Justice Matters for women: Time for action!' conference taking place in London on Wednesday 20 May 2015...
The British Journal of Criminology has published a special online issue 'Shedding Light: Domestic Violence Research in the BJC (1960-2014)' with all content free to download...
On Wednesday 28 January we held an event, 'Justice Matters for young black men: tackling the ethnic penalty'. About 40 people came together to discuss the social context that forms the backdrop to the disproportionate and harmful punishment...
