Comment on knife crime
Our Research Director, Roger Grimshaw, has been quoted by a number of news outlets on knife crime in London.
Today he commented on London's knife violence for NBC News:
Roger Grimshaw
Many criminal record checks unnecessary, new research
Our latest report, out today, reveals new evidence on the extent of unnecessary criminal record checks. Based on Freedom of Information Act requests, Criminal record checks: is the volume of disclosures proportionate?, finds that nearly three quarters of the million or so convictions revealed to employers each year in criminal records checks related to offences that were more than a decade old.
'Irrelevant' criminal record checks harm job hopes
Our forthcoming briefing on criminal record checks is covered in this morning's Observer newspaper.
Our work in the news
We've had a busy few weeks in the media, making interventions on a range of matters, from youth prisons to criminal records, knife violence, to the state of the probation service.
Why monitoring places of detention matters
As the UK begins to change its relationship with the rest of Europe, there has never been a more important time to uphold human rights standards within a principled international framework, argues Roger Grimshaw
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The role of inspection in preventing torture
Roger Grimshaw writes about the work of the National Preventive Mechanism in preventing torture and mistreatment in custody
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Preventing Torture in the UK
In this briefing, Roger Grimshaw reviews and assess the United Kingdom's approach to preventing torture and mistreatment in custody
Is stop and search really the answer to knife crime?
Roger Grimshaw questions why the police are calling for more stop and search activity to reduce knife crime.
Social justice and young adults
Roger Grimshaw, Research Director, asks if young adults should be able to access public care until they are 25 years-old.
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Looking beyond re-offending: criminal records and poverty
Christopher Stacey argues that rehabilitation for the convicted must mean proper access to opportunities
The aim of prisons in England and Wales is to simultaneously punish and rehabilitate. The same could be said for our criminal justice system as a whole. Looking at these two aims, whether the system ‘measures’ in a real sense how much it punishes individuals is an interesting question, but it certainly tries to measure how much it rehabilitates – primarily through looking at the rates of re-offending.
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