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Spending review: Prepare for the worst?
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...
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Time for bold action to downsize criminal justice
The awful events in Paris have sharpened the political conflict over cuts to policing in England and Wales.
During ...
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Police 'not a civil debt recovery agency'
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...
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Better an ideologue than a barbarian
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...
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Slash police budgets
The case of the 14-year-old boy criminalised for sending a naked selfie...
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Policing in Scotland has become a political football
It’s all change at the top in Police Scotland, with Chief Constable Sir Stephen House...
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Slash police budgets to reverse mission creep
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...
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Police cuts an opportunity, our director writes
The ongoing decline in police numbers presents us with an opportunity to rebalance public policy, our director Richard Garside writes in a letter published in today's Guardian...
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Police Scotland reform was long overdue
The establishment of Police Scotland was a virtue born from necessity. The virtue was that at long last specialist services could be provided and similar standards delivered across the country. A...
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Edinburgh presentation on criminal justice policy
In April the Centre's Director Richard Garside took our recent publication, The coalition years, out on the road to Edinburgh, presenting at an Open University Scotland seminar.
The coalition years is part of our ...
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Imposing austerity through nationalisation
Faced with a barristers' boycott last year in a dispute over legal aid fees, the then Justice Secretary, Chris Grayling, underwent what appeared to be an unlikely political conversion.
A...
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National media cover our research on tagging contracts
You might have noticed that our work has been getting some media coverage recently. An analysis of government spending data by our Research and Policy Assistant, Matt Ford, published on 25 June, was picked up by a number of news...