A decade after the killing of Mark Duggan, it’s clear the police have failed to learn vital lessons about excessive forceI can still recall the phone Read More
Aug 04, 2021
UK criminal justice
Aug 01, 2021
Serious questions raised by solitary confinement in prisons | Letters
Emma Ginn and Annie Viswanathan on the effect of solitary confinement on immigration detainees and Dean Kingham on prisoners abandoned to close Read More
Aug 01, 2021
Police review teen killings in search of catalyst for spike in murders
Pilot scheme hopes to discover patterns that will help prevent more deathsMeasures are being introduced to try to identify what is driving rising Read More
Jul 29, 2021
MPs rebuke police for ‘systemic failure’ to improve record on race
Failings have led to ‘unjustified inequalities’, says landmark report that finds little progress in 22 years since MacphersonPolice and governments Read More
Jul 27, 2021
The Guardian view on a crime blitz: Boris Johnson won’t make you feel safer | Editorial
Many voters think the government handles crime badly. Unworkable but tough-sounding punishments won’t change their minds.Boris Johnson was a Read More
Jul 27, 2021
Policing minister defends changes to stop and search in crime plan
Kit Malthouse says there are few other options but to make officers’ wider powers permanentThe policing minister has defended plans to ease Read More
Jul 13, 2021
Killer Colin Pitchfork to be released from prison after challenge fails
Parole Board rejects government call to re-examine decision to free man who murdered two schoolgirlsThe child killer and rapist Colin Pitchfork is to Read More
Jul 12, 2021
Why we should be giving therapy to violent offenders | Gwen Adshead
As a forensic psychiatrist I have learned that helping prisoners confront their offences is best for them, and for societyThroughout my career, people Read More
Jul 08, 2021
Police bill risks criminalising homeless people, warn UK charities
Exclusive: letter to Robert Jenrick says urgent changes needed to bill to avoid threat of jail for rough sleepingLeading homelessness charities have Read More
Jul 06, 2021
Priti Patel rattles the handcuffs – but the Tories have lost control of law and order | Polly Toynbee
Justice in England and Wales is on its knees, with huge court delays adding to the suffering of crime victims and grieving familiesJustice is grinding Read More
Jul 02, 2021
Trans women with sex offence convictions in female jails lawful, rules judge
High court for England and Wales rejects challenge of former inmate who claims she was sexually assaulted by trans prisonerA legal challenge to Read More
Jun 30, 2021
Youth Justice Board chief hits out at plans to raise child custodial sentences
Claudia Sturt warns MPs that more time in custody cements pro-criminal identities and attitudesThe new head of the body that oversees the youth Read More