Articles about 'prison'

For thousands of people in Britain, prison is a grim reality. For the rest of us, it holds a fascination that is all too often simply prurient. Jason Warr, a PhD student at Cambridge University who has served a custodial sentence himself, offers a critique of television documentaries filmed behind bars.

Public and government obsession with security is hampering a rational, open debate about prison policy, the former governor of Brixton Prison told a debate at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas last week.

Jason Hill was a persistent young offender who the courts and Youth Offending Services had given up on.

With recent reports stating that almost three quarters of those charged with offences during the London riots had prior convictions, attention has turned to Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke’s description of Britain’s “broken penal system”. Johann Koehler, from the Institute of Criminology, discusses some of the latest projects to reduce reoffending, and how politicians may have to risk the ‘soft on crime’ label to move forward.

Criminologists in Cambridge are investigating the origins, prevention and control of crime in a fast-changing world.

Pioneering research by Cambridge criminologists is helping prison managers to understand what makes a good prison.

The project Accessing Virtual Egypt is breaking new ground in knowledge transfer between museums and prisons, with empowering results