Comment
Challenging the complacent consensus
How do we create change in criminal justice?
Comment
New monitoring of joint enterprise. What’s been agreed?
Last month the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) agreed to collect data about secondary liability (so called ‘joint enterprise’) prosecutions.
News
Welcome news on joint enterprise
News that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) will set up a pilot scheme to record data on the age, race, sex and disability of those prosecuted under the joint enterprise doctrine is a welcome, if small, step in the right direction.
News
MPs demand answers on joint enterprise
Our research on joint enterprise convictions was cited by Kate Osamor MP in parliament yesterday.
Publication
The usual suspects second edition
The Usual Suspects uses national data to assess the use of joint enterprise laws in prosecutions for serious violence in England and Wales over the last fifteen years.
Comment
Transparency and accountability on joint enterprise still needed
This week the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies published a second edition of the Usual Suspects, a report which looks at the best available indicators of joint enterprise prosecutions and convictions for over a decade.
News
New report on joint enterprise
Today we have published a second edition of the Usual Suspects, a report looking at the best available indicators of joint enterprise prosecutions and convictions for over a decade.
Comment
Gang narratives and broken law: why "joint enterprise" still needs fixing
I didn’t even know what Joint Enterprise was, when my QC was trying to explain it to me… all I was saying to him [was] ‘look, the pathologist said I haven’t
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Speech
Joint enterprise prosecutions since 2016. What do we know? What needs to happen?
Speech given to JENGbA event on joint enterprise in the Houses of Parliament.
News
Parliament must address injustices of joint enterprise, new report
Six years on from a Supreme Court ruling that the laws on joint enterprise had been wrongly applied for over thirty years, new research suggests that there has been no discernible impact on joint enterprise prosecutions.
Publication
The usual suspects
The Usual Suspects uses national data to assess the use of joint enterprise laws in prosecutions for serious violence in England and Wales over the last fifteen years.
News
Putting up a wall
Next month, we're publishing new research suggesting that the criminal justice system remains stubbornly resistant to meaningful reform.