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Here you can find over 500 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.

Lowest number of offenders since records began

Yet another fall in the total number of individuals formally dealt with by the Justice System in Eng & Wales to the lowest since records began, falling 2% in the latest year.

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Examining our youth justice system

Crest Advisory report analyses what drove the falls in first time entrants and custody in the youth justice system and asks what we should do as a result.

There’s an election on the horizon…

The Criminal Justice Alliance and Centre for Justice Innovation have a strategy for influencing the next generation of Police and Crime Commissioners.

Big jump in homeless people dying

Grim new statistics show that 726 homeless people died in England and Wales last year, at an average age of just 45 for men and 43 for women.

The unconditional right to housing

The Housing First model provides housing “first” as a matter of right to people with complex needs, rather than “last” or as a reward.

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