Criminal justice spending, staffing and populations
Matt Ford looks at criminal justice data trends across the three UK jurisdictions
UKJPR Focus 2
Criminal justice in the UK: Smaller, but tougher
Criminal justice across the UK has got smaller, but tougher, over recent years, according to a new briefing from the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies. While recorded crime, prosecutions and convictions have all fallen over the past decade, a 'justice dividend' has yet to be realised in the number of people in prison, which have continued to rise.
