News
What's going on with the crime rate?
There has been a lot of discussion over recent months about the ongoing decline in the official crime rate. Yesterday's data from the Office for National Statistics suggested crime had...
News
G4S repays over £100 million to settle tagging dispute
A day after Justice Secretary Chris Grayling said that G4s may still be prosecuted over claims that it overcharged on electronic monitoring contracts, the company has...
Publication
UK Justice Policy Review: Volume 3
The third 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...
News
G4S may still be prosecuted
Troubled security company G4S may still face criminal prosecution over its alleged overcharging on electronic monitoring and prisoner escort contracts, The...
News
Police and Crime Commissioner abolition call
An incoming Labour government should abolish Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) and replace them with boards that can better represent local interests, according to former Home Secretaries Alan Johnson and Charles Clarke.
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News
Government dismisses 'Marxist' UN housing report
A United Nations report on UK housing, which calls for the suspension of the bedroom tax, has been attacked by the government, The Guardian reports.
The...
News
UK benefits too low, Council of Europe rules
In a ruling almost designed to get certain Eurosceptics foaming at the mouth, the Council of Europe (not to be confused with the European Union) has ruled that the UK's benefits levels are 'manifestly inadequate'.
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News
Falling crime rate not down to the police
Today's Guardian carries an editorial examing the reasons for the ongoing fall in the official crime rate.
The previous Labour government and the coalition...
Comment
The coming probation privatisation disaster
If the government's plans to privatise probation under the 'Transforming Rehabilitation' programme end up being as messy, expensive, counter-productive and damaging as many critics fear, today's...
Comment
Criminal justice harsher and more punitive than ever
Alarming reading in The Daily Telegraph this morning, at least for those who want to see more people sent to prison and for longer.
I am not one of those people. I am in favour of...
Comment
The trouble with the Troubled Families programme
Chances are the Troubled Families programme will ultimately be judged a...
Comment
The end of an undemocratic experiment?
From the start, Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) were a flawed solution to an acknowledged problem: the lack of democratic oversight and accountability of the police.
When the Prime...