Comment
Imprisonment for the traumatised
Recently, I have been writing about trauma as a prelude to imprisonment, and reflecting on what kind of childhood experiences lie in the backgrounds of people sentenced to imprisonment.
Comment
Electronic monitoring: an inquiry into its current and future legitimacy
A joint research project between CCJS and the Howard League for Penal Reform is now close to fruition.
Comment
Institutional racism in the police: how entrenched has it become?
The Black Lives Matter movement has called attention, yet again, to police racism: to understand why it has become a persistent sore we need to examine how routine practices have a discriminatory effect.
Publication
UK Justice Policy Review: Volume 9
The ninth in an annual series from the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, supported by The Hadley Trust, assessing year-on-year developments in criminal justice across the United Kingdom.
News
Great Britain on course for massive prison expansion
Great Britain is on course for a massive expansion in prison capacity, according to a new assessment from the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, out today.
News
Dr Roger Grimshaw
Dr Roger Grimshaw is Research Director at the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies.
Roger has been responsible for a wide range of research studies on criminological and social welfare topics. He has managed a varied set of research studies on services and interventions for people who offend, or are considered at risk of doing so: offender accommodation services; local authority...
News
UK Justice Policy Review 8 is out now
The eighth edition of UK Justice Policy Review is out now, covering the period from the 2017 General Election to the summer of 2018.
Produced annually, the Review uniquely offers concise coverage of key policy developments in criminal justice across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
To improve accessibility and raise public awareness of the changing criminal justice landscape, data are presented in a...
Publication
UK Justice Policy Review: Volume 8
The eighth in an annual series from the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, supported by The Hadley Trust, assessing year-on-year developments in criminal justice across the United Kingdom.
Comment
Young people, violence and knives - revisiting the evidence
After a relatively silent period of almost ten years, ‘knife crime’ has re-entered public awareness and policy discussion.
News
UK Justice Policy Review 7 out now
The seventh edition of UK Justice Policy Review is out now, covering the period from the 2016 Brexit referendum to the 2017 General Election.
Produced annually, the Review uniquely offers concise coverage of key policy developments in criminal justice across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
To improve accessibility and raise public awareness of the changing criminal justice landscape, data are presented in a...
Publication
UK Justice Policy Review: Volume 7
The seventh in an annual series from the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, supported by The Hadley Trust, assessing year-on-year developments in criminal justice across the UK.
News
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:
The carrying of weapons is something that operates like a contagion. If people feel frightened because they are
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