Comment
A missed opportunity for saving lives
Last Thursday, the government decided, was a good day to bury bad news. In what has been referred to as take out the...
Comment
Beyond Govism
According to liberal commentators, Michael Gove's speech on penal reform at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, and his subsequent announcement that HMP Holloway was to close, will...
Speech
Current criminal justice policy and the legacy of coalition
This is the text of the speech our Director Richard Garside gave at the University of Kent on current developments in criminal justice and the legacy of the coalition.
Comment
Criminal justice 'transformation': a wolf in sheep's clothing?
Following last week’s Conservative party conference a number of commentators expressed optimism about the tone and emphasis placed by David Cameron and Michael Gove on the need for ‘transformation’.
Comment
Better an ideologue than a barbarian
That an air of cautious optimism has attended Michael Gove's appointment as Justice Secretary is in no small part down to his predecessor.
Chris Grayling was, by some distance, the worst...
Comment
Imposing austerity through nationalisation
Faced with a barristers' boycott last year in a dispute over legal aid fees, the then Justice Secretary, Chris Grayling, underwent what appeared to be an unlikely political conversion.
A...
News
New children's prison 'under review'
In the lead up to the general election in May 2015, plans for a new 'secure college' in Leicestershire were put on hold. Justice Secretary, Michael Gove, was questioned in...
News
Sharp rise in proportion of young BME prisoners
The proportion of black and ethnic minority children and young people held in the youth justice system has increased sharply over the last decade, according to an analysis by ...
Comment
The curious case of the public subsidy on guns
News
'Shameful crime' with more than 66,000 girls at risk
A coalition of global charities and campaigners are urging Michael Gove to write to the leaders of all primary and secondary schools to highlight the dangers of female genital mutilation (FGM).
Campaigners have called for more accurate data to reflect the number of victims, but it is...
News
Gove is ‘wrecking’ education
Mike Nicholson, admissions chief at the University of Oxford, has warned that Michael Gove’s exam reforms will ‘wreck’ the English education system, reports...
News
Wealth more heritable than genes
The Guardian's Polly Toynbee criticises claims by Dominic Cummings, special advisor to the Education Secretary Michael Gove, that genetics plays a crucial role in a child's educational attainment.
'Like Cummings',...