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UK Justice Policy Review "always makes for a fascinating read"
We recently published our annual criminal justice policy roundup, UK Justice Policy Review 9.
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More for prison-building, less for schools investment
Last weekend's reannouncement of plans to waste £2.5 billion building four new prisons brings home just how deeply entrenched prisons are as social institutions.
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Finding social, not criminal justice, solutions to our problems
At our final webinar on socially-distanced justice last week, Adam Elliott-Cooper of The Monitoring Group and the University of Greenwich spoke about the demands being made by the black lives matter protestors.
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UK Justice Policy Review: Volume 9
The ninth in an annual series from the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, supported by The Hadley Trust, assessing year-on-year developments in criminal justice across the United Kingdom.
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Great Britain on course for massive prison expansion
Great Britain is on course for a massive expansion in prison capacity, according to a new assessment from the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, out today.
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UK Justice Policy Review 8 is out now
The eighth edition of UK Justice Policy Review is out now, covering the period from the 2017 General Election to the summer of 2018.
Produced annually, the Review uniquely offers concise coverage of key policy developments in criminal justice across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
To improve accessibility and raise public awareness of the changing criminal justice landscape, data are presented in a...
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UK Justice Policy Review: Volume 8
The eighth in an annual series from the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, supported by The Hadley Trust, assessing year-on-year developments in criminal justice across the United Kingdom.
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Stop and search has no impact on crime, new report
Police stop and search practices have virtually no impact on crime levels, according to the latest briefing out today from the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies.
Does stop and search reduce crime? by Professor Ben Bradford and Dr Matteo Tiratelli explores an aspect of stop and search which has rarely been subject to analysis: the effectiveness of stop...
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Does stop and search reduce crime?
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.
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Young people, violence and knives - revisiting the evidence
After a relatively silent period of almost ten years, ‘knife crime’ has re-entered public awareness and policy discussion.
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Young people, violence and knives - latest report out now
Attempts to punish and prosecute our way out of knife violence are doomed to failure, according to a new report from the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies.
The report – Young people, violence and knives – finds that police-led interventions and tougher sentencing have, at best, been ineffective and at...
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Young people, violence and knives - revisiting the evidence and policy discussions
In this briefing, Roger Grimshaw and Matt Ford examine recent trends in knife-related violence and assess different approaches to tackling, and reducing it.