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13 July 2021

Ten years ago the House of Commons Justice Select Committee set up an inquiry into the common...

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8 July 2021

The forensic psychiatrist Dr. Gwen Adshead comments with striking professional humility in a...

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1 July 2021

Last week, an amendment to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and the Courts (PCSC) Bill the Centre...

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23 June 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic in the UK has had a dramatic impact on household debt and financial...

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21 June 2021

Some time ago, an article by Rona Epstein on council tax debt was published in the magazine ...

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18 June 2021

At the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, we envisage a society less dominated by...

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15 June 2021

For a long time, we have known that the mental health needs of prisoners are substantial and...

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9 June 2021

Rough sleeping and begging have been illegal in England and Wales since the Vagrancy Act was...

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7 June 2021

There are many strands linking homelessness and the criminal justice system. 

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3 June 2021

The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 saw between 39-300 people killed and 10,000 African Americans...

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31 May 2021

Reaching out for a book on criminal justice to read in advance of my latest piece based on my...

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28 May 2021

More than a quarter of all prisoners in England and Wales are held in prisons built in the...