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Here you can find over 400 posts tracking every major development in criminal justice since 2011. You can track crime trends, court modernisation and digitisation programmes and the impact of austerity. If you’re looking for something in particular, try the search box below.
Charlotte Threipland of APPEAL questions the fairness of the single justice procedure used for more than half a million low level offences a year.
Children are over represented in statistics on crime and violence, both as victims and as perpetrators. To be able to charge them with criminal offences at 10 years is failing them before they have a chance.
Official figures for 2020 show prosecutions down 26% but out of court disposals up by 18% on 2019.
New analysis of police data revealing unnecessary arrests of women.
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Girls in the criminal justice system face a cliff-edge as they turn 18 as many services change or drop off all at once and leave young women vulnerable at a critical time in their lives.
RAND evaluation of the impact of the national model of Liaison and Diversion schemes in police custody.
Russell Webster’s traditional Easter criminal justice quiz
Young adults call for radical police reform focussed on tackling poverty, trauma, and structural racism.
Latest disturbing statistics on the frequency of rape in England and Wales.
All the main provisions of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
Katy Swaine Williams of the Centre for Women’s Justice proposes a new statutory defence for survivors whose offending is driven by their experience of domestic abuse.