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Ending child sex abuse in five generations
By: Helen MillsDate: Tuesday, 25 November, 2014'There is a real issue here about how was it that in the past, but continuing today, the very institutions of the state that should be protecting children...
View ArticleI would build... collective capacity for policy change
Date: Tuesday, 16 December, 2014Deborah Drake of the Open University and Neena Samota, writing on the Reclaim Justice Network website have called for collaborative working to build socially justice...
View ArticleBuilding an international movement to abolish the prison industrial complex
Rachel Herzing and Isaac Ontiveros describe the aims prompting an abolitionist framework.Critical Resistance (CR) is a US-based grassroots group engaged in community organising focused on the goal of...
View ArticleReform or abolition? Using popular mobilisations to dismantle the...
Julia Sudbury examines how grassroots campaigning is set to transform criminal justice in the USIn April 2009, California officials unveiled historic plans to cut $400 million from the state's $9.8...
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I would build... a new liberal politics
By: Emma BellDate: Wednesday, 28 January, 2015In order to find our way out of the punitive straightjacket of current penal politics, it is necessary not just to understand the context in which such...
View ArticleWhat are the alternatives to prison?
Date: Wednesday, 22 April, 2015The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, in collaboration with the University of Liverpool, held a workshop on alternatives to prison on 21 April 2015. Attended by...
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How can we make prisons obsolete?
By: Abigail AmeyDate: Friday, 24 April, 2015On 21 April, I attended an event run by the Centre and the University of Liverpool to discuss the alternatives to prison, as part of the ongoing Justice...
View ArticleTheresa May announces funding to end police detention of mentally ill
Date: Friday, 22 May, 2015The Home Secretary, Theresa May, has pledged up to £15 million of extra funding for health-based alternatives to prevent the police detention of people who are mentally ill,...
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I would build...schools instead of prisons
By: Professor Graham PikeDate: Friday, 29 May, 2015Why build schools not prisons? To quote Aaron Sorkin, '...education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. Schools should be palaces. The...
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I would build...a blueprint for change
By: Rebecca RobertsDate: Monday, 13 July, 2015When I first started working in the criminal justice voluntary sector around 15 years ago, I did so with the best intentions. From what I’d learned at...
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I would build… radical strategies for resisting the harms of reform
By: Bree CarltonDate: Tuesday, 08 September, 2015Abolitionism is a theory and method for dismantling prisons and criminal justice. It is above all concerned with strategising alternatives to...
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Discussing alternatives to criminal justice
By: Will McMahonDate: Tuesday, 20 October, 2015As part of the Justice Matters project we asked people to tell us what they would build in place of criminal justice to deal with the social harms that...
View ArticleCan Gove fix criminal justice?
Date: Tuesday, 20 October, 2015A letter from the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies is published today in The Independent. It calls for a 'whole-society approach' to preventing and reducing harm,...
View ArticleElectronic monitoring - a flawed alternative
Date: Wednesday, 21 October, 2015A report published by the US based, Centre for Media Justice, has highlighted concerns about the rush to deploy electronic monitoring (EM) equipment as an alternative...
View ArticlePolice could become less visible on the streets
Date: Friday, 23 October, 2015Police officers could become less visible on the streets because police forces aren't managing their budgets properly in the face of funding cuts, warns a report by Her...
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Time for bold action to downsize criminal justice
By: Richard GarsideDate: Thursday, 19 November, 2015The awful events in Paris have sharpened the political conflict over cuts to policing in England and Wales.During Prime Minister's questions...
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Building social justice solutions
Date: Wednesday, 20 January, 2016On 19 January 2016, the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies hosted two workshops entitled 'Alternatives to criminal justice: Building social justice solutions'.These...
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Establishing new terrains of justice
By: Theo Scheiner Date: Friday, 22 January, 2016On 19 January 2016 I attended an exciting workshop as part of the Justice Matters initiative, run by Will McMahon and Rebecca Roberts over at the Centre...
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New Justice Matters toolkit - building social justice alternatives
Date: Wednesday, 16 March, 2016On Thursday 17 March 2016, Will McMahon (Deputy Director) and Rebecca Roberts (Senior Policy Associate) will be attending the Howard League conference at the University...
View ArticleAlternatives to Holloway
Date: Wednesday, 23 March, 2016Rebecca Roberts, the Centre's Senior Policy Associate, has written about the closure of Holloway prison, drawing on the Alternatives to Holloway pamphlet published in...
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