Comment
Every three days
“Over the ten years from 2009 to 2018, at least 1,425 women were killed by men in the UK. This means that a man killed a woman every three days.”
Comment
The impenetrable wall of police silence
“It was exactly 10 years ago that I discovered that my partner of six years was actually a policeman. He was a fictional character - his identity was fabricated and he was put into my life to deceive me, by his employer, who knew that one day they would remove him.”
Speech
Living in poverty is punishment itself
Speech given to the ‘Is it a crime to be poor’ online event, hosted by the University of Birmingham on behalf of the Is it a crime to be poor? alliance
Comment
A welcome shift in the transgender debate
After the drama and toxicity of the transgender debate, yesterday was something of welcome anticlimax.
Comment
Responses to coronavirus in prison patchy and inconsistent
This week we published our latest report on the coronavirus crisis in prisons.
Comment
What now for short prison sentences?
Some 60 per cent of those imprisoned each year in England and Wales serve sentences of under one year.
Comment
Rape is not prohibited by the law, it is regulated
Earlier this week, the Victims' Commissioner Dame Vera Baird QC decried the “catastrophic” decline in prosecutions for rape.
Comment
What has gone down must go up
“Mum phones every day. I cannot explain how it makes me feel. It makes me feel sad and confused”.
Comment
More for prison-building, less for schools investment
Last weekend's reannouncement of plans to waste £2.5 billion building four new prisons brings home just how deeply entrenched prisons are as social institutions.
Comment
Finding social, not criminal justice, solutions to our problems
At our final webinar on socially-distanced justice last week, Adam Elliott-Cooper of The Monitoring Group and the University of Greenwich spoke about the demands being made by the black lives matter protestors.
Publication
UK Justice Policy Review: Volume 9
Since 2010, the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, with support from The Hadley Trust, has been assessing criminal justice developments across the UK through its UK Justice Policy Review programme. Our latest publication – UK Justice Policy Review , Volume 9 – covers the turbulent period from...
Comment
An opportunity for progress, or the threat of an authoritarian turn?
Since the start of the coronavirus crisis we have been tracking its impact on the criminal justice system.