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Comment on police body-worn cameras research
Reacting to new research suggesting that police body-worn cameras reduce complaints against the police, our Director Richard Garside said...
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Police disbelieve victims with mental health problems
More than one third of victims of crime with mental health problems experienced negative reactions from police officers when they disclosed their condition, according to new research (£) published in the latest issue of...
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Comment on Justice and Home Secretary appointments
Commenting on the appointment of Liz Truss as Justice Secretary our Director, Richard Garside, said:
Liz Truss' predecessor, Michael Gove, seems destined to go down as the great prison reformer whose career was ended before he had time to disappoint prison reformers.
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The Guardian covers our conference on police spying
An article about our forthcoming conference on police spying and state racism appeared in The...
Comment
Death at the hands of the law
Earlier this month The Times ran a series of pieces about the mounting pressures on the police.
At the serious end, the police faced a...
Comment
The New Labour crime policies of Cameron and Corbyn
One of the guilty secrets of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party is its policies on policing.
Comment
Digging into the data on crime and punishment
This is the first of four pieces we are publishing, the product of a partnership with the University of Birmingham, discussing correlations between police recorded crime, criminal justice activity...
Comment
Grappling with vomiting binge drinkers
The reaction to the impending prospect of ‘cuts’ in police numbers in the run-up to the recent Comprehensive Spending Review was as obfuscating as it was revealing, for one simple reason: while...
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Policing the crisis
Last month our Senior Policy Associate Rebecca Roberts attended the 'Policing the crisis' conference organised by Defend the Right to Protest. She spoke about criminal justice in times of austerity.
The conference brought together activists, writers, lawyers and researchers to focus on...
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'Deplorable' errors in police funding formula
The House of Commons Home Affairs Committee has criticised the Home Office for serious errors made in the review of the police funding formula. In a report published on Friday 11 December, the committee said;
It is deplorable that Home Office officials made errors in
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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.
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Spending review: Prepare for the worst?
In advance of today's spending review, David Walker writing in The Guardian is critical of the Treasury for its focus on the short- term. He says that even Conservatives who support...