How to resolve the IPP crisis for good
This report sets out a five-point plan to resolve the 21-year injustice of the Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence.
This report sets out a five-point plan to resolve the 21-year injustice of the Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence.
Over the summer, we contributed to several news pieces, including on prison reform, witness anonymity, crime waves, police investigations and the Imprisonment for Public Protection sentence.
Everyone now agrees that there are serious problems with contemporary policing, including many among the police themselves.
Across the UK, an individual can find themselves detained, with no clear sense of when they might be released, under a number of different powers, laws and regulations.
We are one of a number signatories of a letter to the prison’s minister, Damian Hinds, expressing “grave concerns regarding the children’s secure estate”.
If criminal justice is to be a proper function of a democratic state, it makes sense to consult public opinion.
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.
The recent report by the police Inspectorate on police vetting has garnered a great deal of publicity.
The Centre for Crime and Justice today called for the use of electronic monitoring (so-called “tagging”) as part of a criminal justice sanction to be based on proper evidence and guided by clear principles.
Today’s report by the Public Accounts Committee paints an alarming picture of government failures in managing electronic monitoring (EM) services in criminal justice.
A timely assessment of the profound psychological toll of the Imprisonment for Public Protection sentence and what needs to be done.
The “toxic” Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence should be abolished as a matter of urgency, to restore a sense of justice and hope, according to a new report from the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies.