Better an ideologue than a barbarian
That an air of cautious optimism has attended Michael Gove's appointment as Justice Secretary is in no small part down to his predecessor.
Chris Grayling was, by some distance, the worst...
That an air of cautious optimism has attended Michael Gove's appointment as Justice Secretary is in no small part down to his predecessor.
Chris Grayling was, by some distance, the worst...
The case of the 14-year-old boy criminalised for sending a naked selfie...
On Friday, 25 September, the preliminary findings of research led by economist Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay on the relative effectiveness of non-custodial sentences will be presented at a workshop at the University of Birmingham.
There will also be talks by:
Faced with a barristers' boycott last year in a dispute over legal aid fees, the then Justice Secretary, Chris Grayling, underwent what appeared to be an unlikely political conversion.
A...
The Director of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, Richard Garside, today said that Pentonville Prison in North London should be demolished, with affordable housing for Londoners built in its place.
His comments follow another grim...
A review of mental health crisis care in England and Wales by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has found that the police are regularly the first point of contact for those in mental distress....
On this site a couple of weeks ago, Professor Tim Hope called for a major overhaul of the Crime Survey for England and Wales. The current survey, he argued, is 'much better at not measuring crime than it is at measuring crime’s...
The children's charity the NSPCC publishes regularly-cited research on the extent of child abuse and neglect in the United Kingdom.
Its 2013 report,...
Our director, Richard Garside, was on The One Show on BBC One yesterday talking about the challenges faced by cuts in police budgets.
'There is no more deterrent from the police just being around,' Richard said, 'than if you have more nurses and people will be deterred from being ill'....
Our Director, Richard Garside, appeared on the BBC current affairs programme Victoria Derbyshire to discuss falling police numbers. This was in the wake of...