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Tag Archives: criminal justice
Feb 11 2013
We can learn lessons about the dangers of precipitate policy-making from political reaction to the murder of toddler James Bulger
Leave a commentTweet Tomorrow it will have been 20 years since the murder of toddler James Bulger. Rob Allen reflects on the tragic case and its implications for criminal justice in the UK. He argues that the rapidity with which policy was made in the face … Continue reading
Posted by: February 11, 2013
Tagged with: criminal justice, james bulger, Ken Clarke, probation, Tony Blair
Nov 22 2012
A commitment to remove under 18’s from prison and a plan to develop more appropriate community based arrangements would be a truly radical step for criminal justice in the UK
1 CommentTweet Rob Allen argues that Chris Grayling has an important opportunity to radically reform how juvenile offenders are treated. Efforts to educate young people and influence them to stay out of trouble in the future are likely to be ineffective in … Continue reading
Posted by: November 22, 2012
Tagged with: Chris Grayling, criminal justice, prisons, Young Offender Institutions
Nov 15 2012
Police force mergers are unnecessary and miss the point; the best policing is local
3 CommentsTweet Much of the focus during the PCC elections has been on the principle of representation. Will Tanner argues that localism is equally important and that the future of policing in England and Wales must be local and democratic, not regional and … Continue reading
Posted by: November 15, 2012
Tagged with: ACPO, criminal justice, Hugh Orde, localism, PCC Elections, reform
Nov 15 2012
Despite the problems that have beset the elections for Police and Crime Commissioners we must still take them seriously
Leave a commentTweet The criticism of the Police and Crime Commissioner reforms has been lengthy and varied. This week’s elections finally end the tripartite governance structure and replace it with an untested and far from popular new system focused on a single … Continue reading
Posted by: November 15, 2012
Tagged with: criminal justice, Electoral Reform, PCC Elections, Police and Crime Commissioner, policing, voting
Nov 1 2012
If the government wants to introduce a real revolution in law and order, it should devolve powers and budgets for all criminal justice and emergency services to PCCs
1 CommentTweet Will Tanner argues that if the Prime Minister is serious about his ‘tough but intelligent’ approach to crime and justice then resources should be directed to what is proven to work. The astonishing success of the Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) … Continue reading
Posted by: November 1, 2012
Tagged with: criminal justice, Glasgow, reform, Violence Reduction Unit, Will Tanner
Oct 29 2012
Without a pause in UK justice reforms there is a risk that enormous damage will be done to the day-to-day functioning of criminal justice in England and Wales
1 CommentTweet Last week Tim Newburn argued that Cameron’s crime speech was a delicate balancing act between different constituencies within the Tory party. In this post Rob Allen takes further issues with the government’s rhetoric, suggesting that writing what is seemingly an open … Continue reading
Posted by: October 29, 2012
Tagged with: criminal justice, David Cameron, justice system, Justice&Prisons, Rob Allen, Wormwood Scrubs
Jan 30 2012
We must acknowledge the limits of policing and punishment in the absence of social justice
1 CommentTweet Robert Reiner argues that it is time we re-evaluated our ‘common sense’ conceptions of the role of the police, and started to take seriously the notion that socio-economically rooted pressures generating criminality have been suppressed, but not tackled, by the decades of getting … Continue reading
Posted by: January 30, 2012
Tagged with: crime, criminal justice, economy, police, social justice, uk politics
