Speech
Living in poverty is punishment itself
Speech given to the ‘Is it a crime to be poor’ online event, hosted by the University of Birmingham on behalf of the Is it a crime to be poor? alliance
Comment
A welcome shift in the transgender debate
After the drama and toxicity of the transgender debate, yesterday was something of welcome anticlimax.
News
Prisons and politics
An article by our Director, Richard Garside, on the politics of imprisonment, is published in the latest edition of Prison Service Journal.
Comment
Responses to coronavirus in prison patchy and inconsistent
This week we published our latest report on the coronavirus crisis in prisons.
Comment
What now for short prison sentences?
Some 60 per cent of those imprisoned each year in England and Wales serve sentences of under one year.
Comment
Rape is not prohibited by the law, it is regulated
Earlier this week, the Victims' Commissioner Dame Vera Baird QC decried the “catastrophic” decline in prosecutions for rape.
Comment
What has gone down must go up
“Mum phones every day. I cannot explain how it makes me feel. It makes me feel sad and confused”.
Comment
More for prison-building, less for schools investment
Last weekend's reannouncement of plans to waste £2.5 billion building four new prisons brings home just how deeply entrenched prisons are as social institutions.
Comment
Finding social, not criminal justice, solutions to our problems
At our final webinar on socially-distanced justice last week, Adam Elliott-Cooper of The Monitoring Group and the University of Greenwich spoke about the demands being made by the black lives matter protestors.
Publication
UK Justice Policy Review: Volume 9
The ninth in an annual series from the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, supported by The Hadley Trust, assessing year-on-year developments in criminal justice across the United Kingdom.
Comment
An opportunity for progress, or the threat of an authoritarian turn?
Since the start of the coronavirus crisis we have been tracking its impact on the criminal justice system.
News
Great Britain on course for massive prison expansion
Great Britain is on course for a massive expansion in prison capacity, according to a new assessment from the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, out today.