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The extent of conflict between being black and being British. A cautionary tale of a stigmatised minority

In a recent radio programme, a group of workers lamented the fact that black youngsters did not have role models and might be suffering a number of difficulties because of this. In a brief moment the general problem was identified but there was a sense of hopelessness regarding the solution. The...

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What’s the worst that could happen? The death of Christopher Alder

We were originally given 11 minutes of video evidence of Christopher dying on a custody suite floor, with his trousers and boxer shorts down to his knees, with five police officers stood about, speaking about charging him with more severe charges to account for him being in the condition that he...

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Editorial

In the last year, the USA has been shaken by the deaths of a number of black people at the hands of local police forces. A social movement has grown up around these deaths that has adopted the slogan 'black lives matter’. Fuelled by mobile phone coverage and circulated on social media, there are...

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cjm 101: #BlackLivesMatter

#BlackLivesMatter is the slogan adopted by a social movement in the USA following the deaths last year of black people by killed the police. Racism is institutionalised and a feature of everyday life in the USA, in spite of the civil rights movement during the 1960s. This side of the Atlantic, we...

Police corruption, spying and racism conference: 5 and 6 Feb, 2015

On Friday 5 and Saturday 6 February 2015, the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies and The Monitoring Group held the 'Police corruption, spying and racism' conference at Conway Hall, London. The video footage from many of the sessions are now available to view online via Vimeo and are embedded below.

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Preparing for the Inquiry into police spying

On Wednesday 25 March 2015, The Monitoring Group, in collaboration with the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, held a meeting to discuss how to ensure that the judge led inquiry into police spying meets the needs and demands of the victims of police actions.

Suresh Grover of The Monitoring Group has written about the Inquiry and established a...

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Police corruption, racism and spying conference on film

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Policing conference footage now available

On Friday 5 and Saturday 6 February we held a conference in conjunction with The Monitoring Group, Tottenham Rights and Imran Khan & Partners. We heard from a range of moving and inspiring speakers on police corruption, spying, racism and accountability.

Video footage from many of...

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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...

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Policing in crisis?

Over Friday and Saturday, 6 and 7 February 2015, an impressive line-up of speakers will offer powerful accounts on contemporary policing at the 'Police corruption, spying, racism and accountability' conference in London.

Organised by the...

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New report: Young black and/or muslim men in the criminal justice system

On Wednesday 10 December, The Young Review was released and Rebecca Roberts, Senior Policy Associate attended the launch at the House of Lords. The review investigates the experiences and outcomes of young black and/or Muslim men in the...

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Imran Khan speaks on police corruption, surveillance and racism

Leading lawyer and activist Imran Khan last night spoke about police corruption, surveillance and racism, as he gave the 23rd Eve Saville Memorial Lecture.

Imran started by talking about the unprovoked racist murder of Stephen Lawrence in a south London...