Stephen Farrall | Centre for Crime and Justice Studies

Comment

How did the council house sell-off change crime risks?

One of the most well-known policies that the newly elected Conservative Government of 1979 embarked upon was the selling of the council homes to their tenants.

The ‘right to buy’, as it...

News

Crime-economy link has broken down, new research

The assumption that rising unemployment means rising crime is challenged by new research to be presented at an event at the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies on Friday, 18 September. The research finds that the association between...

Publication

Law-abiding majority? The everyday crimes of the middle classes

Professor Susanne Karstedt and Dr Stephen Farrall put forward a thoughtful and challenging contribution to the debate about ‘crime’ and ‘criminality’ and role of the market. Whilst politicians have professed to be enacting criminal justice policies in a bid to protect the ‘law abiding majority’ the...