Prison-building has become one of the go-to regeneration tools in the former industrial heartlands of England and Scotland, according to new research we are publishing today.
It is commonplace that prisons are created and maintained to hold those sentenced by the courts, and those remanded while awaiting trial.
One of the most well-known policies that the newly elected Conservative Government of 1979 embarked upon was the selling of the council homes to their tenants.
The assumption that rising unemployment means rising crime is challenged by new research to be presented at an event at the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies on Friday, 18 September. The research finds that the association between...
