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High prison numbers: Are sentencers to blame?
By: Helen MillsDate: Wednesday, 23 March, 2016Since his appointment in May, several predictions have been made about the kind of Justice Secretary Michael Gove will be. Expanding the role for the...
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Centre at forefront of calls for drugs policy reform
Date: Monday, 09 May, 2016Our forthcoming event, 'Responding to drug harms: Can the UK learn from Portugal?', featured in an article in The Observer yesterday about a bill proposing radical reform of...
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Better responses to drug harm
Date: Thursday, 19 May, 2016Last Monday, the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies hosted an event exploring Portugal's experience of decriminalising the possession of drugs for personal use and...
View ArticleWhy it's time to dump our discredited drugs policy
Date: Tuesday, 07 June, 2016Helen Mills, Research Associate at the Centre, writes inScottish Herald about UK drug policy. The article was informed by the Centre's recent event on a health-led response...
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Community based sentences across Europe
Until July 2016, the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies was the UK partner in a two year European collaboration charting the use of community sentences in Europe and their effectiveness as an...
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Community sentences won’t solve Europe’s prison problem
By: Helen MillsDate: Wednesday, 29 June, 2016Over the last two years the Centre has been part of an eight country collaboration looking at the use of community based sentences in Europe. Aware of the...
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Alternatives to imprisonment in Europe
By: Catherine HeardDate: Monday, 04 July, 2016Severe overcrowding and bad conditions are common features of prisons in all the eight states involved in this, the latest European Prison Observatory...
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Will MPs follow the public mood and decriminalise drugs?
By: Will McMahonDate: Thursday, 07 July, 2016The Royal Society for Public Health’s recent report, Taking a New Line on Drugs, demonstrates there is a clear shift in public sentiment with regard to...
View ArticleAlternatives to custody: national workshops
Friday, 16 October 2015These workshops, held on 10 June and 23 September, aimed to explore why the UK's substantial use of alternatives to custody in recent years has had no effect on prisoner numbers....
View ArticleAlternatives to custody workshop, 23 September 2015
On 23 September 2015, the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies held the second in this pair of workshops assessing developments in alternatives to custody in the UK since 2000.These workshops aimed to...
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