Publication
UK Justice Policy Review: Volume 5
The fifth in an annual series by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, supported by The Hadley Trust, assessing year-on-year developments in criminal justice and social welfare across the UK...
Publication
Quantifying the ethnic penalty
It's common to hear people talk about how we now live in a ‘post-racial’ society, where merit and effort determine the extent to which people are able to meet their basic needs and achieve their potential. Indeed, this argument is often invoked to counter proponents of positive discrimination. Here...
Publication
UK Justice Policy Review: Volume 4
The fourth 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...
Comment
The ongoing electronic tagging scandal
The revelations in July 2013 that G4S and Serco had been...
Publication
The coalition years: Criminal justice in the United Kingdom
Change has swept the United Kingdom criminal justice systems over recent years. The election of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government in May 2010 drew a line under the generous...
Speech
Justice Matters for young black men: the data
When I first joined CCJS I was asked to find some data on the ethnic penalty, building on my colleagues’ 2008 paper Ethnicity...
Comment
Employment and the 'ethnic penalty'
In my last blog I wrote about how people from black and minority ethnic groups are let down by further and higher education. Here I describe how racial discimination in the labour market is...
Comment
Post-16 education and the 'ethnic penalty'
Last time I talked about how we have seen significant improvements in outcomes in primary and secondary education for pupils from ethnic minority backgrounds. However, I also showed how black...
Comment
Primary and secondary education and the 'ethnic penalty'
In my last piece I talked about poverty and ethnicity. Here I focus on primary and secondary education. But why is education important?
Education is important in understanding...
Comment
Poverty and the 'ethnic penalty'
Why is poverty important? Because regardless of political orientation, or how one thinks about poverty, it is usually perceived as a problem per se.
This is because the abundance...
Comment
Is austerity an act of violence?
Identifying violence?
On 10 September the Centre held a roundtable discussion on the extent to which we can understand austerity policies as acts of violence against...
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