News
What is corruption?
You can now listen to our Deputy Director Will McMahon and Professor David Whyte of the University of Liverpool talking about our recent...
Comment
The Lammy Review: getting upstream of the problem
Prime Minister, David Cameron, has invited David Lammy MP to ‘...
News
Parliament out of touch on corruption and collusion
A letter by our Deputy Director, Will McMahon, was published in The Guardian newspaper last Thursday.
He was responding to an article by the columnist Aditya Chakrabortty, which argued...
Comment
Cameron’s prison reform: privatisation and asset stripping?
Every so often a government minister makes a socially liberal speech that is hailed as a turning point in penal policy.
News
Cameron's reforms: Asset stripping and privatisation?
The Centre's Deputy Director, Will McMahon, and Senior Policy Associate, Rebecca Roberts, have warned that David Cameron's recent speech on prison reform signals a move towards the expansion and privatisation of criminal justice, rather than a serious attempt to address the problems in the...
News
Centre responds to Lammy review announcement
The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies has responded to the announcement that the Prime Minister, David Cameron, has asked David Lammy, Labour MP for Tottenham,...
News
Call for action on joint enterprise convictions
MPs and Peers will today hear calls for urgent action to address the injustices of joint enterprise convictions.
The call follows the publication of results of a survey of nearly 250 serving prisoners convicted under joint enterprise provisions. The survey found clear evidence that black and minority ethnic people are serving long prison sentences because of unfair and racist criminal justice practices....
News
Victims of injustice speak out against unfair convictions
A survey of nearly 250 serving prisoners convicted under joint enterprise provisions has found evidence that black and minority ethnic people are serving long prison sentences because of unfair and racist criminal justice practices.
The survey results are contained in a new report published today by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies.
The report – Dangerous associations – tracks the complex process of criminalisation...
Comment
Black lives matter
In the last year, the USA has been shaken by the deaths of a number of black people at the hands of local police forces. A social movement has grown up around these deaths that has adopted the...
Publication
Editorial
In the last year, the USA has been shaken by the deaths of a number of black people at the hands of local police forces. A social movement has grown up around these deaths that has adopted the slogan 'black lives matter’. Fuelled by mobile phone coverage and circulated on social media, there are...
Publication
Justice Matters: lifting the lid on Pandora’s box
Will McMahon introduces this edition's special focus on Justice Matters.