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...
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...
‘This is not an issue we will ever arrest or enforce our way out of.’ Commenting on young...
A report published by Children’s Rights Alliance for England mapping inequalities in outcomes for children in London indicates that children in Lambeth are 30 times...
I wrote this blog a week or so after the death of Stuart Hall. I coudn't let its publication on the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies website go without mentioning the release of...
The former Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell, who resigned from his post over the 'plebgate' affair, calls for an end to police stop and search where there are no grounds for suspicion.
Writing in The Times:
'In 2011-12 Asian or Asian British people accounted for
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A report from the Inspectorate of Constabulary has found that 27 percent of police stop and searches it reviewed did not did not have a lawful justification. Meanwhile, policing minister Damien Green...
