The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies has responded to the latest speech from the Prime Minister, David Cameron, on plans to reform the prison system;
Richard Garside,...
The outgoing Chief Inspector of Prisons, Nick Hardwick, has told The Guardian that former Justice Secretary, Chris Grayling, tried to prevent him from...
As the saying goes, 'those that fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it'.
The Scottish Parliament is...
This is the text of the speech our Director Richard Garside gave at the University of Kent on current developments in criminal justice and the legacy of the coalition.
In advance of today's spending review, David Walker writing in The Guardian is critical of the Treasury for its focus on the short- term. He says that even Conservatives who support...
The awful events in Paris have sharpened the political conflict over cuts to policing in England and Wales.
During ...
The Chief Constable of Surrey Police, Lynne Owens, yesterday told the House of Commons Home Affairs Commitee that the police were 'not a civil debt recovery agency'.
She made the remarks in exchanges over whether the police should routinely pursue motorists who drive off without paying...
That an air of cautious optimism has attended Michael Gove's appointment as Justice Secretary is in no small part down to his predecessor.
Chris Grayling was, by some distance, the worst...
The case of the 14-year-old boy criminalised for sending a naked selfie...
It’s all change at the top in Police Scotland, with Chief Constable Sir Stephen House...
Slashing police budgets provides us with the opportunity to rebalance public policy, writes our Director Richard Garside in an article appearing in The Guardian today...
