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Criminal Justice
The latest (2024) crime trends

The Office for National Statistics finds notable increases in robbery, violence with injury and consumer and retail fraud in the year ending June 2024.

Prison
IPP licence termination hotline

The Howard League has set up a hotline to advise people on IPP sentences about the new arrangements for terminating their licence.

Innovation
Cyber crime and harm

Advanced technology has increased the breadth, scale and sophistication of cyber crime. How can cyber security evolve to counter it?

Prison
The same old story on prison education

Jon Collins of the Prisoners’ Education Trust finds that the 2023/24 official statistics tell the same story of missed opportunities.

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