As the country prepares to enter into a new legal and political era, marked by novel and complex constitutional challenges, some of the most vulnerable members of society, and particularly women, are facing legal battles which would not be out of place in Victorian times.
Rona Epstein calls for urgent action to ensure children’s rights are met in the criminal justice system
There has been more inexplicable delay in the government’s plans for women in criminal justice. It renders urgent the question of how to address women’s health issues and the harmful impact of...
Thousands of people have now shown their support for a petition calling on London Mayor Sadiq Khan to purchase the former Holloway prison site and protect the land for council homes, community facilities...
Through the publication of short articles, we are providing a space for women's voices to be heard. Madeline Petrillo, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth, will tell their stories....
Maureen Mansfield and Hannah Pittaway writing for the Left Foot Forward website outline some of the issues arising from the forthcoming closure of Holloway prison - the only...
On a sunny Saturday earlier this month hundreds travelled to a remote wheat field in Bedfordshire to gather outside Yarl's Wood Immigration Detention Centre and demand its closure.
As with...
On 20th May 2015, the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies and Women in Prison, held the Justice Matters for Women: Time for Action! conference.
The event was attended by over 100 people including activists, researchers, practitioners and women affected by criminal justice. The...
The failures of criminal justice and the impact of imprisonment on women is highlighted in The Independent on Sunday today. The article is...
'Hitherto, philosophers have [only] sought to interpret the world; the point, now, is to change it.'
If it had not been so used and abused, Marx’s...
There is a growing commitment within a group of critical criminologists at Manchester Metropolitan University, to recognising, exposing, analysing and campaigning around social injustice and...
