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Author Archives: crimetobepoor
Engaging Marginalised Children: Improving Preventative Intervention in Youth Justice
Realist research funded by the Nuffield Foundation has highlighted the importance of ‘child first’ environments and intervention design for achieving positive outcomes, particularly for marginalised children who are given community sentences in the Youth Justice System. The project was conducted by a multi-disciplinary team, led by Professor Steve Case, with Dr Mark Monaghan and DrContinue reading “Engaging Marginalised Children: Improving Preventative Intervention in Youth Justice”
Punishing poverty in public spaces: living within a Public Spaces Protection Order
Dr Vicky Heap, Dr Alex Black and Dr Chris Devany Public Spaces Protection Orders (PSPOs) prompted concern and criticism from human rights organisations and criminologists when they were introduced by the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act (2014). In short, a PSPO can place behavioural restrictions upon a designated area of public space. If thoseContinue reading “Punishing poverty in public spaces: living within a Public Spaces Protection Order”
The School to Prison Pipeline: A UK Perspective
at the University of Birmingham (7 November 2022) as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences We hosted a very lively and insightful event on The School to Prison Pipeline: A UK Perspectiveat the University of Birmingham campus on a rainy Monday evening (in November!). We were delighted to see so many attendees engagedContinue reading “The School to Prison Pipeline: A UK Perspective”
Wales no longer sends people who owe council tax to prison, England should do the same
Rona Epstein http://appeal.org.uk/news/2017/1/19/no-longer-in-prison-melanies-sentence-is-quashed First published by APPEAL https://appeal.org.uk/
Why are we sending people to prison for begging and rough sleeping?
Rona Epstein First published in the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies https://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/resources/go-directly-jail-shouting-begging-and-rough-sleeping
Why are pregnant women in prison?
Rona Epstein & Geraldine Brown First published in the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies https://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/resources/we-should-stop-sending-pregnant-women-prison
Too many women are in prison on remand
Rona Epstein First published in The Justice Gap https://www.thejusticegap.com/women-in-prison-remand-in-custody/
What it means to be ‘tough on crime’
Poverty causes crime. People can argue about what constitutes ‘poverty’ or what it means for something to be a ‘cause of crime’, but it takes a special form of denial to pretend this powerful link is not there. It helps, of course, to articulate the various ways in which poverty insidiously punishes those caught inContinue reading “What it means to be ‘tough on crime’”
19 August 2022 Poverty and policing: could the socioeconomic duty be applied to policing?
Simply punishing people who commit crimes will not get to the root causes of crime, namely, poverty. The police are likely to encounter more and more of poverty-driven offences as the country battles through a cost-of-living crisis. As of mid-August 2022, inflation has hit a 40-year high, and energy and food bills are rapidly becomingContinue reading “19 August 2022 Poverty and policing: could the socioeconomic duty be applied to policing?”