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Prisoners' families: civic virtue and policies of impoverishment

Roger Grimshaw has co-written an article in the Journal of Poverty and Social Justice on poverty and disadvantage experienced by prisoners' families living at or below the level officially recognised as 'poor'....

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'Knife Crime': Ineffective reactions to a distracting problem? A review of evidence and policy

A coherent evidence based strategy that recognises the deeper structural causes of inequality, poverty and social disaffection is needed to address knife related offending according to a report...

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Poverty and Disadvantage among prisoners' families

Poverty and Disadvantage among prisoners families was produced by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies in collaboration with the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College and was published by the...

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'Knife crime'. A review of evidence and policy (2nd Edition)

A coherent evidence based strategy that recognises the deeper structural causes of inequality, poverty and social disaffection is needed to address knife related offending according to a report...

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Social harm and crime at a global level

Poverty kills, yet rarely seems to provoke the political and public outrage that conventional `crime' often does. In this What is crime? briefing Social harm and crime at a global level we publish an...