What’s happening in the SVRO pilot?
Six months on from the launch of the controversial SVROs, what have we learnt so far?
Six months on from the launch of the controversial SVROs, what have we learnt so far?
As part of the Young Adult Safety project, StopWatch is working in partnership with the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, looking at serious violence reduction orders (SVROs).
The Centre is currently scrutinising a number of serious violence policies and practices as part of our Young Adult Safety project.
As part of our summer reading lists, this week we've collected our favourite articles on policing from the Centre's archives as well as more recent commentaries.
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.
Does stop and search reduce crime?, a report we published by Ben Bradford and Matteo Tiratelli early last year has been cited by The Times in an article questioning the effectiveness of increased stop and search.
The Times found no correlation between the use of section 60 orders and knife crime, based on two years worth of data.
Our report by Bradford and Tiratelli is based on London-wide data from the last ten years and finds little evidence of the impact of stop and search on violent...
This week Katrina Ffrench, CEO of StopWatch, joins us to talk about stop and search.
Our research on stop and search has been cited in a parliamentary debate on serious violence as to the limited effectiveness of stop and search on crime reduction.
Last year's report, Young people, violence and knives evaluated recent trends in knife crime and the effectiveness of different policy responses in...
Does stop and search reduce crime? by Ben Bradford and Matteo Tiratelli explores an aspect of stop and search which has rarely been subject to analysis: the effectiveness of stop and search on crime reduction.
Yesterday we held a really interesting roundtable on the effectiveness of stop and search on crime levels.
The event was part of our UK Justice Policy Review programme which provides analysis of criminal justice policy developments through a series of briefings, annual reviews and events.
Professor Ben Bradford (University College London), Dr Paul Quinton (College of Policing) and Matteo...
The reaction to the impending prospect of ‘cuts’ in police numbers in the run-up to the recent Comprehensive Spending Review was as obfuscating as it was revealing, for one simple reason: while...