Crime and Justice

Ben Geen was caught red-handed - a serial killer, or so it seemed. In the third of his series The Justice Trap, Jon Robins shows how a misreading of statistics led to a life sentence

As another provider of probation services teeters on the brink of collapse, the Government remains committed to a role for the private sector in supervising offenders.

A Prevent "mentor" helping to deradicalise people through his extraordinary experience inside a murderous neo-Nazi group speaks to Byline Times.

How can the Government reduce the use of short prison sentences if judges lack confidence in community alternatives?

As serious allegations about Leave EU Official and Arron Banks continue to come out – the media and political class are complicit in a conspiracy of silence, says Otto English

Caroline Orr explains how Trump's campaign manager's apparently lenient prison sentence is only the first chapter of this saga

Two parents took their sick child to hospital. Within hours they were being questioned by police. Two days later, they were in court. Why?

In the first of a new series examining the failings of our criminal justice system, Jon Robins explores why this should matter to us all.

As a new campaign is launched calling for the Government to introduce non-means tested legal aid for families who lose relatives in a state-related death, a Government minister defends the status quo.

With the number of serious further offences by those on probation rising by over a third since the service was reformed in 2014 by Chris Grayling, the probation workers’ union asks: where is the political accountability for the failings?

Otto English argues that ‘an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind’ and that an advanced democracy like Britain should not seek to punish a naïve girl for the sins of those who groomed her.

We can't wait for the Government to make prisons places of change. Meet the charity helping inmates to think about their lives and how to transform them.

The Supreme Court's ruling that victims of miscarriages of justice can only claim compensation if they can prove their innocence 'beyond reasonable doubt' is a blow to the idea of justice, according to campaigners.

The Modernising Mental Health Act report fails to offer a solution to what is one of the most glaring problems in the mental health service - the vast number of Afro-Caribbeans who are sectioned compared to the majority white population.

Society must understand the human story behind crime to deal with it, according to the creators of Crooks.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office report (2014) found a 30 per cent rise in the number of Britons arrested in the UAE since 2012

Criminal justice charities, parliamentarians and bereaved families have united to launch a campaign to 'End Child Imprisonment'.

Prisoners, who are particularly vulnerable to neglect and abuse, still have rights, says Nick Hardwick.

Professor Philip Alston believes the perception that human rights are only for criminals or the most vulnerable is damaging.