Comment
Race, class and the scandal of school exclusions
Our prisons are awful places.
Comment
Illicit drug markets and the exploitation and criminalisation of young people
For the past five years, much of my work has focused on the harms associated with prohibitionist drug policies.
News
State is failing young people leaving custody
Youth resettlement – final report into work in the community, the latest report from HM Inspectorate of Probation and HM Inspectorate of Prisons, has prompted calls for more support for young people released from custody. Our Director, Richard Garside is amongst those calling for the state to address it failures.
The report found that children leaving custody are not being given adequate support as they re-integrate back into life in the community. Both ITV News...
Comment
Our youth justice system discriminates against BAME children – and it’s getting worse
In evidence to the Justice Select Committee on progress made on the implementation of...
Comment
Beneath county lines
County lines refers to the extension of drug supply from urban into rural and other settings.
News
Knife crime a public health, not policing, problem
Knife crime should be treated as a public health challenge, not a policing problem, our Director, Richard Garside, tells The Guardian newspaper today.
There is renewed concern that knife violence is on the rise following the publication of the latest crime data showing a 22 percent increase in knife crime and an 11 percent rise in gun crime.
Richard told the Guardian that while most people would never be a victim of knife...
News
Comment on knife crime
Our Research Director, Roger Grimshaw, has been quoted by a number of news outlets on knife crime in London.
Today he commented on London's knife violence for NBC News:
The carrying of weapons is something that operates like a contagion. If people feel frightened because they are
...
News
Police cannot solve knife violence problem
Our Director Richard Garside today welcomed remarks by the Chair of the all-party group on knife crime that tackling knife violence was a health and education challenge, not a police issue.
The remarks by Sarah Jones, the MP for Croydon Central, came in an...
Comment
Criminalise or ‘disappear’ the young? No path to a ‘Great Meritocracy’
Theresa May’s speech at the Conservative Party conference elaborated...
Publication
Understanding the riots
To make sense of last summer's riots it is important to put them in historical perspective. A comparison with the 1981 riots in Brixton, Liverpool and elsewhere and with the 2001 riots in Bradford and nearby towns reveals two shifts. The concerns of the rioters have shifted from a clear response to...
Comment
The closing gap between education and youth justice
It may be unsurprising that young people have to attend the majority of activities associated with their youth justice orders - refined and targeted policies become obsolete when young people are...
Comment
Generation 2015 – in the eye of a perfect storm?
There is nothing like the simultaneous publication of independent reports on the state of the nation’s youth to whet an appetite for public wringing of hands and conscience-searching. So...