Author Archives: crimetobepoor

written as part of the Rethink and Reset campaign rub by Revolving Doors: https://revolving-doors.org.uk/a-new-chance-instead-of-prison-can-it-reduce-crime/ 

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”

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”

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”

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/

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

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

Rona Epstein First published in The Justice Gap https://www.thejusticegap.com/women-in-prison-remand-in-custody/

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’”

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?”