Rebecca Roberts | Centre for Crime and Justice Studies

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Empower, resist, transform. A collection of essays

This essay collection highlights how women facing criminalisation and gender based violence are repeatedly failed by society. Helen Mills, Rebecca Roberts and Laurel Townhead describe the shortcomings of criminal justice approaches that often replicate and reinforce inequalities rather than tackle...

Speech

Violence against women: from intervention to prevention?

I want to thank you all for responding to our invitation – and offering to take time out of your busy schedules to contribute to the discussion today. We have an awful lot of experience and...

Comment

Violence against women: Changing the prescription

Jane Martinson, writing about her time as Women’s Editor at The Guardian,...

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Institutional care and poverty: evidence and policy review

This review, sponsored by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, examined international evidence about the links between institutional care and poverty in order to identify strategies for reducing the risks in the four countries of the UK.

Comment

Putting women in their place

Bea Campbell, in the final pages of her recent book, The End of Equality,...

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What is crime?

Rebecca Roberts and Will McMahon explore hidden and ignored crimes and harms

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The hall of mirrors: Criminal justice myths uncovered

Gazing into the carnival mirror The 2003 Oxford Dictionary of English describes a myth as ‘a widely held but false belief or idea’. The authors in this issue of cjm challenge a series of criminal justice myths including what ‘crime’ is, how much is out there, who the ‘criminals’ are, and the...

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Confronting penal excess

Rebecca Roberts calls for a new voice in the debate

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Is penal reform working? Community sentences and reform sector strategies

Helen Mills and Rebecca Roberts consider the opportunities and challenges for progressive penal reform followed by responses from George Mair, Jamie Bennett and Mick Ryan.

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Truth and lies about 'race' and 'crime'

Will McMahon and Rebecca Roberts consider ethnicity, harm and crime.

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Justice matters for women: lifting the lid on Pandora's box

Helen Mills and Rebecca Roberts outline some of the thinking behind the Justice Matters for Women project In January this year the Prime Minister, David Cameron, was questioned by the House of Common's Liaison Committe e on the issue of violence against women. In his responses, Cameron emphasised...

Comment

Little to lose, much to gain

There is a growing sense of frustration and sadness amongst practitioners and campaigners at the economic and political situation we now find ourselves in. Many of the gains in gender equality,...