by Crest | May 2, 2017 | Community safety, Courts, Crime prevention, Criminal justice reform, Offender management, Policy, Prisons |
Last week we launched our latest research report “Community sentences: where did it all go wrong?” at an event in the House of Lords. Hosted by Lord Falconer of Thoroton, former Lord Chancellor and first Secretary of State for Justice, we set out the...
by Harvey Redgrave | May 2, 2017 | Courts, Crime prevention, Criminal justice reform, Offender management, Policy, Prisons |
Twenty years ago, youth justice reform was high on the political agenda. It even made the now infamous 1997 Labour pledge card. But in this year’s general election you can expect little in the way of discussion about criminal justice in any form. Despite recent rises...
by Harvey Redgrave | Feb 26, 2016 | Brexit, Community safety, Counter terrorism, Crime, Crime prevention, Government |
On Sunday, the Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, opened up a new flank in the ‘Brexit’ argument: that staying in the European Union (EU) would leave us vulnerable to Paris-style terrorist attacks. This followed several days of briefing from Number Ten...
by Jon Clements | Feb 17, 2016 | Communication strategy, Communications, Community safety, Crime prevention, Crime statistics, Data analysis, Evidence based practice, Stakeholder engagement |
Earlier this month the New York Police Commissioner, Bill Bratton, announced that his officers were going to stop people sleeping on the city’s subway system. Not rough sleeping, just sleeping – tired shift workers, exhausted parents dozing on the way home etc. It was...
by Harvey Redgrave | Dec 10, 2015 | Courts, Crime, Crime prevention, Criminal justice reform, Devolution, Emergency services, Government, Ministry of Justice, Policy |
The Times splash yesterday on Michael Gove’s plans to review sentencing paints a picture of an ambitious and confident Justice Secretary, willing to make tough (and potentially unpopular) decisions for the long-term good of the criminal justice system. Having been in...
