Our research on the link between imprisonment and poverty was cited this week in The Independent.
The research was referenced by columnist James Moore, in a piece about the case of Lavinia Woodward, the University of Oxford medical student likely to be spared a jail sentence after stabbing her boyfriend in the leg.
'There are good grounds for according Woodward mercy, regardless of...
The Children’s Commissioner, Anne Longfield, has advocated that children being looked after by the state should have the right to be...
Our March issue of criminal justice matters magazine is guest edited by the Centre's Research Director, Dr Roger Grimshaw. This special issue focuses on poverty and...
In August 2014, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) published a set of Findings as...
On November 17 we held an event entitled ‘Prisoners and looked after children – a common cause?’.
The roundtable was full to capacity, with many delegates representing organisations working directly with people in need. The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies' Research Director, Roger Grimshaw, presented the case for a new social policy on poverty that introduces a principle of reparation...
Richard Bilton, reporting for Panorama, describes how, despite persistent claims by mainstream politicians to be 'on the side of hard-working people', the majority of the poor...
