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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.

Trauma and young offenders

Beyond Youth Custody provides a detailed analysis of the impact of trauma on young offenders and how imprisonment can be experienced as repeat traumatisation.

The truth about crime and rationality

In the second of our “reframing justice” series, author and thinker Tom Gash explores our flawed thinking about crime and the rational actor.

Alcohol and youth offending

Alcohol Concern highlights the issues for young drinkers in contact with the criminal justice system & points out the lack of available interventions in London.

Reframing the justice argument

Philippa Budgen is the first guest blogger in a new occasional series dedicated to new ways of engaging the public in justice reform.

Planning for problem-solving courts

Centre for Justice Innovation publishes an extremely helpful delivery plan for trialing problem-solving courts in England & Wales. Will the MoJ follow through?

Big rise in anti-muslim incidents

Report from Tell MAMA shows an alarming rise in the number of anti-Muslim incidents in the UK, most frequently perpetrated by men against Muslim women.

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