Young adults and the courts: prosecution and prejudice
New findings out today from the Universities of Sheffield and Manchester have highlighted long term trends in court appearances for young adults.
New findings out today from the Universities of Sheffield and Manchester have highlighted long term trends in court appearances for young adults.
Prisoners serving IPP (Imprisonment for Public Protection) prison sentences, beyond the length set by the court – the so-called ‘tariff’ – should be released “without delay”, the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies says today.
Next month we will be publishing an overview of the psychological impact on prisoners of the Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence.
Criminal justice systems appear to be set in stone because their categories and operations have a permanent stamp of authority.
The latest report from the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies is the essential guide to the main criminal justice agencies across the UK.
A unique overview of the main criminal justice institutions across the three UK jurisdictions of Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the combined jurisdiction of England and Wales.
Our research director, Roger Grimshaw is quoted in a new piece on drugs sentencing in Byline Times.
An electronic monitoring regulator should be established to ensure that intrusive monitoring technologies are only used when there are clear ethical and practical grounds for doing so.
The Usual Suspects uses national data to assess the use of joint enterprise laws in prosecutions for serious violence in England and Wales over the last fifteen years.
With the participation of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, the End Child Imprisonment coalition brings together a range of organisations and experts, which provide and spread information in order to impact positively on current policy.
I want to discuss abolishing a crime that shouldn’t be one….
‘Our reputation as a just nation demands that this IPP stain be at last eradicated.’ Lord Brown of Eaton-Under-Heywood Justice of the Supreme Court 2009-2012, in his foreword to a report by the Prison Reform Trust.