News
Victim blaming
The Times reports that police officers in London have been given a target to fine ten cyclists per month for traffic offences, in response to the recent spate of cycling deaths in the...
News
31,000 preventable deaths amid winter freeze
The ONS has revealed that 31,000 extra people last year died during Britain’s freezing conditions with one third of these being due to cold houses....
Comment
Cycling deaths...if you have a knee it is time to jerk it
Sometimes the art of politics is being seen to do 'something'. Following the death of the sixth cyclist in a fortnight on London’s roads the Mayor had to been seen to take action. It is not...
News
Youth employment is ‘public health time bomb’
Sir Michael Marmot of the World Health Organisation has warned that youth unemployment is a ‘public health time bomb waiting to explode’ in Europe, and that child poverty is a policy choice in Britain as so little is done to redistribute wealth, reports...
News
Video: UK wealth inequality
Inequality Briefing has released an animation which shows that the distribution of wealth in the UK is far less equal than people believe it to be and is at its widest since the Second World War. Watch the video here.
News
Deaths in the 21st century
Newly published mortality data from the Office for National Statistics show that deaths from heart attacks and stroke have halved over the last 11 years, The Guardian reports...
News
Rickets make a comeback
Dame Sally Davies, Chief Medical Officer, has said that the country should be ‘profoundly ashamed’ that the Victorian-era disease rickets has made a comeback in a damning report on the state of children’s health, reported in...
News
Care reforms to push the vulnerable aside
Research by the London School of Economics has revealed that thousands of elderly and disabled people will no longer receive funding towards the cost of the care they require on a daily basis, ...
Comment
Does crime exist?
In the course of everyday life, men and women, children and adults, enter into social relationships with each other. These relationships enrich their lives and are at the heart of what it means to...
News
Letter of the month
Professor Steve Tombs, one of our Open University colleagues, had a letter published in The Guardian pointing out the differences in responses to murder depending on who the victim...
Publication
Ethnicity, harm and crime: a discussion paper
In 1983 the criminologist Bernard D. Headley published 'Black on black’ crime: the myth and the reality’ in the journal Crime and Social Justice.
Speech
What should be the goals of the criminal justice system?
The Centre's director Richard Garside spoke at an ESRC-funded seminar on 'Regulation and criminal justice'. He was responding to a paper by Professor Andrew Sanders on the purpose of the criminal justice system.