Ministry of Justice
What works in criminal justice? Time to find out
What’s a guilty plea worth? One third off the custodial tariff (the current arrangement) or a 50 per cent reduction in sentence for an early plea?
Flaws in the MoJ's reoffending study
The Ministry of Justice has recently launched a “payment by results’ pilot study at the privately run Peterborough Prison, which holds 480 male and 360 female prisoners.
Prison works: but how well?
In 1993, Conservative Home Secretary Michael Howard famously proclaimed “Prison works!” and built more prisons.
Beware of lawyers bearing gifts
The Independent on Sunday (last Sunday) and The Times (today) have run identical stories saying that the number of contested wills is rising, blamin
Bent statistics on going straight
Ministers in the Coalition Government need to watch their claims more carefully.
Government retreats on rape anonymity
The Government has abandoned plans to grant anonymity to those (predominantly men) accused of rape.
Dead or Alive? How the coronial system causes delay
How many deaths occurred in England and Wales last week? We don’t know the answer, and that’s understandable.
Home Affairs Committee on the case of the National DNA Database
The inquiry into the National DNA Database by the Home Affairs Committee of the House of Commons, which was published on Monday, comes after much of the ‘inquiring’ - including by
