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Slash police budgets
The case of the 14-year-old boy criminalised for sending a naked selfie...
Comment
Policing in Scotland has become a political football
It’s all change at the top in Police Scotland, with Chief Constable Sir Stephen House...
News
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...
News
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...
Comment
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...
News
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 ...
Comment
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...
News
G4S and Serco continue to dominate criminal justice market
Controversial security companies G4S and Serco received more than seven pounds in every ten spent by the government on prison and probation-related contracts in the four years to April 2014, according to new research by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies...
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UK Justice Policy Review: Volume 4
The fourth in an annual series by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, supported by The Hadley Trust, tracking year-on-year developments in criminal justice and social welfare across the UK...
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G4S and Serco still being paid millions for tagging
The Ministry of Justice is continuing to pay controversial security firms G4S and Serco millions of pounds a month for electronic tagging, more than a year after both companies were supposedly banned from delivering such work. The revelation comes following an analysis of Ministry of Justice...
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The ongoing electronic tagging scandal
The revelations in July 2013 that G4S and Serco had been...