crime and justice Articles

Tory panic over the United Kingdom Independence party is now so fevered they are ready to oppose anything associated with Europe, no matter how beneficial it is to the British people. That is why we are seeing rightwing Tory members of parliament demand that the...

This book is self-described as ‘a whirlwind demolition’ of conventional thinking about the causes of crime and how it is best tackled. Many of its pages are dedicated to offering a corrective to widely held assumptions as Nick Ross shows how many are false or worse....

The central challenge for a prospective Labour government is how to pursue a radical social agenda within limited budgets. A major new IPPR report, The Condition of Britain: Strategies for social renewal, published last month, argues that the centre-left must not...

Noel 'Razor' Smith has a total of 58 criminal convictions and is thought to have committed over 200 armed robberies. He was first imprisoned at age 16 and spent almost all of the next 34 years in various prisons, never succeeding in 'going straight' on his brief...