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.
The number of children and young people in the youth justice system fell again in 2016/17 but knife crime was up and those detained were more likely to be restrained or separated.
The latest (Jan 18) figures reveal a complex picture with crime overall falling but concerns about serious violent offences and an upturn in car thefts.
Public Accounts Committee extremely critical of Ministry of Justice procurement of “next generation” electronic tagging.
First hand account of the work of Registered Intermediaries who help vulnerable people give evidence in court.
2nd report in 2-year Howard League campaign finds that police approach can be effective in preventing the criminalisation of children in residential care.
The Ministry of Justice has responded swiftly and with apparent sincerity to the challenge of rectifying the racial disparity highlighted by David Lammy.
Rob Allen’s new report for Transform Justice finds it mystifying that we are prosecuting more people for minor offences in a time of austerity.
The number of child arrests continues to fall, but the proportion of BAME children arrested is increasing. Lammy argues that police services should explain this
Ministry of Justice annual stats on race in the justice system reveals entrenched racial disparity throughout the system.
Shona Minson on the confounding grief of having a mother in prison and how this separation is aggravated by stigma.
Large YouGOv polls finds that 38 percent of 18 to 24 year olds have experienced inappropriate touching in a public place.
Analysis of the sudden rise and then sustained fall in young offenders entering the justice system find that policing policy is the main influencing factor.
