News
Policing part one: Our summer reading list
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.
Comment
Institutional racism in the police: how entrenched has it become?
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.
News
Our research on stop and search cited in The Times
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...
Podcasts
Talking stop and search with Katrina Ffrench
This week Katrina Ffrench, CEO of StopWatch, joins us to talk about stop and search.
News
Centre's research on stop and search cited
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...
News
Does more stop and search mean less crime?
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...
Comment
Grappling with vomiting binge drinkers
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...
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...
News
Report on inequality in London
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...
Comment
Comment
Policing a multicultural society in the 21st century
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...