Alarming reading in The Daily Telegraph this morning, at least for those who want to see more people sent to prison and for longer.
I am not one of those people. I am in favour of...
When the outline agreement of the new Tory-Liberal coaltion was published on May 12 a notable omission was the lack of any reference to prisons or a prison building programme.
Are recessions and economic shocks bad for your health?
This morning's Independent newspaper cites new research claiming that the global...
Some years ago the criminologist Andrew Rutherford made a habit of explaining to magistrates the consequences of their decisions.
It was of course for them decide whether to sentence boys...
Last week I posted an analysis of trends in police data over the past decade, as part of an argument that talk of 'overall crime' was best left to crime involving overalls.
What I would like to do here is map out some of the main themes that in my view appear likely to inform Labour's criminal justice policy in its third term in power...
Criminology is in essence interested in five questions: what is crime? How much of it is there? Who commits it? Why do they commit it? How should society respond?
Richard Garside has written a piece on his approach to tweeting. You can follow Richard...
Richard Garside argues in The Guardian that the narrow focus on the 'crime problem' is preventing policy makers from considering the totality of ways in which the lived experience of far too...
What is the purpose of the criminal justice system?
Vision is important in politics.
What to do with the ageing and expensive prison estate in England and Wales.
