News

Should we send fewer people to prison?

Our director, Richard Garside, was on Sunday Morning Live on BBC One yesterday, discussing whether we should send fewer people to prison.

18 March 2024
Comment

Accuracy in criminal statistics matters

I have been concerned for some years about the implications of the preference for gender self-identification over birth-sex for criminal justice.

8 March 2024
Comment

Peers ponder way out of IPP impasse

There is widespread agreement across the main political parties and many legal experts that imprisonment for public protection (IPP) sentences need wholesale reform.

20 February 2024
Comment

Total recall

Recall is the mechanism through which a released prisoner can be returned to prison, if they are judged to have broken the terms of their release.

18 December 2023
Comment

In praise of the unusual suspects

The annual Longford Lecture, now in its 21st year, has become something of a fixture in the criminal justice reformer’s calendar.

1 December 2023
Comment

Remembering Mike Guilfoyle

Mike Guilfoyle, a long-standing friend of the Centre for Crime and Justice, died peacefully at home on 19 November, after a long battle with cancer.

30 November 2023
News

In the news

Over the summer, we contributed to several news pieces, including on prison reform, witness anonymity, crime waves, police investigations and the Imprisonment for Public Protection sentence.

11 September 2023
Comment

A sense of justice

At the beginning of July I was honoured to attend a powerful exhibition in parliament on the appalling Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence.

31 July 2023