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Crime Statistics: Who can we count on?
For those of us engaged in teaching Criminology, perhaps the most surprising (though welcome) thing about the House of Commons Public Administration Select Committee's (PASC) report ...
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I would give up... the police service
I would give up the police service, particularly the uniformed branch, and its officers.
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Response to the review of crime statistics
In early 2011 the National Statistician conducted an independent review of crime statistics with the aim of increasing public confidence in these statistics. The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies...
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Riots, pure and simple?
This is an unreferenced version of Professor Tim Hope's introduction to cjm 87 on the August 2011 riots. A referenced version of this piece, along with the full contents, is on the publisher's website.
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Lessons for the Coalition: an end of term report on New Labour and criminal justice
New light is shed on the challenges facing the coalition in reforming the criminal justice system, with the publication of a report by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies. In a collection of...
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Critical thinking about the uses of research
The government is reluctant to use the learning from critical, independent evidence based analysis and research to inform criminal justice policy making according to a new report published by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies.