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Promoting knowledge

Improved knowledge and understanding are a foundation for
effective action to achieve meaningful change.

Challenging injustices

A fair, impartial and proportionate criminal justice system is important. But much about today’s justice system is unfair.

Creating change

We see transformative solutions to the problems we face as a real and present opportunity, not something only possible in an ill-defined future.

Highlights

Event

Jun

‘You can’t be a “black man” in prison’

The title of this event is taken from a comment made by a prisoner, Kwaku, to award-winning researcher, Dr Jason Warr.

Comment

The parliamentary battle to reform the IPP sentence

The long, slow march to IPP justice took a significant step forward last week with wide-ranging agreement across the House of Lords that new Government proposals, although welcome, don’t go nearly far enough.

Publication

Prison Service Journal 272

This edition of Prison Service Journal combines articles by serving prisoners, academics, and those that straddle both worlds, on the theme of collaborative knowledge and research.

News

Radzinowicz prize for best criminology article

Dr Jason Warr, associate professor of criminology at the University of Nottingham, has been awarded this year’s Radzinowicz Memorial Prize.

Recent commentary

Comment

Education behind bars

In my last article, I shared my experience working behind the cellblock of a courthouse in Washington, D.C.

Comment

Four lives, four deaths. Neglect in our prisons

People are not supposed to die in prison due to neglect.

Speech

Lord Ramsbotham Memorial Lecture

The first annual lecture, in memory of Lord Ramsbotham, held on 29 November 2023

Comment

Accuracy in criminal statistics matters

I have been concerned for some years about the implications of the preference for gender self-identification over birth-sex for criminal justice.

Latest news

News

Statement on Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian

On 18 April, the legal scholar Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, who holds the Lawrence D. Biele Chair of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, was arrested by Israeli police and held overnight.

News