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Why monitoring places of detention matters
Last month, the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) delivered its seventh annual report:...
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Preventing Torture in the UK
Under the Optional Protocol of the UN Convention against Torture, National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs) are set up to inspect and report on conditions in all places of detention.
Comment
The role of inspection in preventing torture
The Optional Protocol to the UN Convention Against Torture provides for the establishment of National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs) with powers to visit places of detention and to report to the authorities.
Comment
Is stop and search really the answer to knife crime?
‘This is not an issue we will ever arrest or enforce our way out of.’ Commenting on young...
Comment
Social justice and young adults
The Children’s Commissioner, Anne Longfield, has advocated that children being looked after by the state should have the right to be...
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Breaking the chainlinks of poverty
Thanks to support from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies produced an evidence review on the links between poverty and institutional care, summarised in a collection of reviews published by the Foundation (Grimshaw et al., 2014; Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2014...
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Prisoners and looked after children - a common cause?
In August 2014, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) published a set of Findings as...
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Institutional care and poverty: evidence and policy review
This review, sponsored by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, examined international evidence about the links between institutional care and poverty in order to identify strategies for reducing the risks...
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Institutional care and poverty: making common cause?
Consider this scenario: a social policy analyst examining evidence about two groups in institutional care notices that many members of each group come from a background of poverty and face an...
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Justice and institutional care
Roger Grimshaw suggests that new forms of institutional care might offer a way forward for the Justice Matters initiative
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Savile: Institutions, abuse and justice
It is hardly surprising that the investigations of Savile ‘and others’ have prompted anxious reflections about the protection of children in institutions. The aftermath of the initial revelations...