Summary Justice, Fast-but Fair? / Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, August 2008
PDF - http://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/opus784/Summary-justice.pdf
"This report raises concerns that the trend towards pre-court summary justice for a range of offences may not be being used `fairly and effectively'. It says that the use of summary sanctions, by the police and prosecutors remains outside of the official inspection regime, warning that there is `an accountability deficit' and calls for a 'thoroughgoing' review of the use and impact of summary powers."

Race and the criminal justice system / Ministry of Justice, 8 July 2008
PDF - http://www.justice.gov.uk/docs/stats-race-criminal-justice.pdf

Postcode lottery of rape conviction / Sunday Times 6 July 2008
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4276214.ece
Marie Woolf
"Campaigners blame inherent faults in the criminal justice system. They say in some cases police fail to take rape victims seriously. A quarter of reported rapes in the UK are not treated as a crime and are never pursued."
Statistics: PDF - http://extras.timesonline.co.uk/rape.pdf

Report to the Department of Health and Ministry of Justice: Executive Summary: Review of Prison-Based Drug Treatment Funding: Final Report, December 2007 / Ministry of Justice, 17 March 2008
PDF - http://www.justice.gov.uk/docs/prison-drug-review.pdf
"This is the final report to the Department of Health and Ministry of Justice from a review of how existing resources for drug treatment in prisons could be used more effectively."

Local Criminal Justice Board Effectiveness: a national survey into effective performance management and local performance / Ministry of Justice, 29 February 2008
PDF - http://www.justice.gov.uk/docs/local-criminal-justice-board.pdf

Draft joint inspection report on the Crown Court 2004: Managing the business of the crown court: Listing and case management in the crown court / Ministry of Justice, 4th March 2008
PDF - http://www.justice.gov.uk/docs/managing-business-crown-court.pdf
"A draft report on listing and case management in the Crown Court prepared by three criminal justice inspectorates - HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate, HM Magistrates' Courts Service Inspectorate and HM Inspectorate of Constabulary - following a joint inspection in 2003. The report was never finalised and is now being published under the Freedom of Information Act."

Good practices for the protection of witnesses in criminal proceedings involving organized crime / United Nations. Office on Drugs and Crime, 2008
PDF - http://digbig.com/4wmjp
"In recent years transnational organised crime has grown. Criminal organisations are becoming stronger and more diverse. They are engaging more and more frequently in systematic forms of cooperation designed to further their criminal activities. In the investigation and prosecution of crime, particularly the more serious and complex forms of organized crime, it is essential that witnesses, the cornerstones for successful investigation and prosecution, have trust in criminal justice systems."

Average time from arrest to sentence for Persistent Young Offenders: November 2007 / Ministry of Justice, February 2008
PDF - http://digbig.com/4wkdb
Statistical Bulletin 11/07

Quarterly performance figures for Local Criminal Justice Boards published / National Criminal Justice Board, 4 February 2008
http://lcjb.cjsonline.gov.uk/ncjb/29.html

Effects of personality, interrogation techniques and plausibility in an experimental false confession paradigm
Legal and Criminological Psychology, Volume 13, Number 1, February 2008 , pp. 71-88(18)
http://digbig.com/4wjbk
Klaver, Jessica R.; Lee, Zina; Rose, V. Gordon
"The goal of the present study was to investigate the effects of personality variables, interrogation techniques and the plausibility level of an alleged transgression on the experimental elicitation of false confessions."

'Children should not be dealt with by the criminal justice system'
Community Care, 31 January 2008
http://digbig.com/4whqr
Maria Ahmed
"Baroness Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, formerly the highest family court judge in England, is calling for children who offend to receive social work support or be dealt with by family courts, except in cases where the offence was serious."

Legislative scrutiny: Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill: Fifth report of session 2007-2008: report together with formal minutes and appendices / TSO, 25 January 2007
PDF - http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt200708/jtselect/jtrights/37/37.pdf
House of Lords. House of Commons. Joint Committee on Human Rights
HL Paper 37
HC 269

Statistics on Women and the Criminal Justice System 2005/06: A Ministry of Justice publication under Section 95 of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 / Ministry of Justice, January 2008
PDF - http://www.justice.gov.uk/docs/women-criminal-justice-system-2005-06.pdf
Zoe Allwood
[Criminal Justice Act 1991 Section 95]

[Australia] 4513.0 - Criminal Courts, Australia, 2006-07 / Australian Bureau of Statistics, 25 January 2008
http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/mf/4513.0?OpenDocument
"This publication presents nationally comparable statistics relating to the criminal jurisdiction of the Higher (Supreme and Intermediate), Magistrates' and Children's Courts across Australia for the period 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007. Some time series data are also included where available. The statistics describe the characteristics of defendants, including information on the offences and sentences associated with those defendants."

Juror speaks out: 'the court saw us as idiots' / The Times, 29 January 2008
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article3242073.ece
Mike Seckerson
"In an unprecedented move, two jurors recently spoke out to condemn the conviction of Keran Henderson, a childminder, for the murder of 11-month-old Maeve Sheppard while in her care. Their comments were made anonymously. Now, in an exclusive article, the foreman, a lecturer living in Berkshire, questions the practical workings of the jury system."

Social justice and criminal justice / Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, November 2007
PDF - http://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/opus408/CJANDSJConfpapers07.pdf
This collection of essays from more than 20 researchers and academics highlights how the government has "failed to tackle deep-rooted social injustice". Published as part of the Harm and Society project, the collection explores themes such as the impact of historically high levels of inequality, endemic violence against women and the increasing reliance on criminal justice measures to manage social problems."

[USA] Tell Me about the Test: The Construction of Truth and Lies in Drug Court
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Vol. 36, No. 3, 223-251 (2007)
http://jce.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/36/3/223
Mitchell B. Mackinem ; Paul Higgins
"Through a multiyear participant observation study in three southeastern drug courts, we explore how staff members react to clients' responses when confronted with positive tests for illicit drug use. Within their professional beliefs about drug addiction, treatment, and testing, staff members interpret the clients' responses as truths or lies, though some lies are worse than others and some truths are better than others. To understand how staff members produce organisational outcomes as they manage clients, interpretive studies that look beyond the most public arenas of drug and other problem courts need to be conducted as they have been in exploring other service agencies."
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The Impact of eyewitness identifications from simultaneous and sequential lineups
Memory, Volume 15, Issue 7 October 2007 , pages 746 - 754, 13 July 2007
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a780588807
Daniel B. Wright
"Recent guidelines in the US allow either simultaneous or sequential lineups to be used for eyewitness identification. This paper investigates how potential jurors weigh the probative value of the different outcomes from both of these types of lineups. There were no reliable effects detected between making no identification and identifying a filler. The effect sizes were similar for simultaneous and sequential lineups. These findings are important for judges and other legal professionals to know for trials involving lineup identifications."
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Victimless crimes shouldn't entail jail / The Australian, 14 January 2008
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,23046292-7583,00.html
Alan Gold
"WHO can forget the leonine grace and physical beauty of American athlete Marion Jones winning five gold medals in the 2000 Sydney Olympics? Eight years on, a sadly diminished Jones will serve six months' incarceration for lying to authorities about her use of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs during our Olympics. The six months, though, is only a small part of her sentence. Quite as punishing has been her exposure before the world's media, an admission to her family and her fans that she's a liar and a cheat; being stripped of her medals; and the expurgation of her name from the record books. Her use of drugs and the lies she told to avoid punishment have ruined any future to which she might have looked forward. Which begs the question, what additional value is there in locking her up in prison when she is already serving a sentence of humiliation witnessed by people across the world?"

Criminal Justice Matters 70: Politics, economy and crime / Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, 14 December 2007
http://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/cjm.html
The impact of economic and political thinking on crime and imprisonment is examined in the latest issue of Criminal Justice Matters.
Editorial
PDF - http://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/opus429/CJM70_Editorial.pdf
"Pat Carlen argues that political economy perspectives are now more than ever relevant to a range of global and local crime and harm issues."
It’s the political economy, stupid! A neo-Clintonian criminology
PDF - http://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/opus430/CJM70_Reiner_article.pdf
Robert Reiner examines the origins of the study of political economy
Other articles:
CREATING CRIMINALS: A RECIPE FOR AN INSECURE WORLD?
Vivien Stern describes how UK society is creating an industry out of crime.
POLITICAL ECONOMY AND CRIME POLICY
Colin Leys considers the role of private finance in policy making.
ECONOMICS AND CRIME: IDEAL-TYPICAL RELATIONSHIPS
Vincenzo Ruggiero looks at four different approaches to the relationship between crime and economics.
GLOBALISATION AS CONVERGENCE? COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PUNISHMENT
Nicola Lacey argues for a more nuanced understanding of political economy and criminal justice.
PENAL POLICY IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
James Dignan and Michael Cavadino look at how political economy impacts on penal policy.
RETHINKING THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PUNISHMENT
Alessandro De Giorgi argues for a better understanding of the relationship between labour and punishment.
PRISON EXPANSION WITHOUT A LABOUR MARKET ORIENTATION?
Magnus Hörnqvist considers how labour market changes have affected the experience of imprisonment.
VERTIGO AND VINDICTIVENESS: SOME NOTES ON THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PUNISHMENT
Jock Young explores the economic and social insecurities of late modern life.
POWERLESS STATES AND CRIMES OF POWER: EXPLORATIONS INTO THE NEW WORLD OF CRIMES OF THE POWERFUL
Susanne Karstedt says that globalisation has led to increased opportunities for powerful elites to commit serious crimes.
SEX, MONEY AND THE REGULATION OF WOMEN’S ‘CHOICES’: A POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PROSTITUTION
Jo Phoenix argues that policy reforms have placed women at greater risk.
POLITICS, ECONOMY AND ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME
Reece Walters highlights the dominant interest of trade and profit over environmental safety.
A POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CORPORATE KILLING
Steve Tombs argues that a political economic approach is essential to understanding safety crime.
GORDON BROWN’S CHARTER FOR CORPORATE CRIMINALS
David Whyte explains why the government’s new Compliance Code opens the door to corporate crime.
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF RIGHTS: EXPORTING PENAL NORMS TO AFRICA Andrew M Jefferson says that exporting the West’s penal, criminal and human rights policy to Africa without questioning its relevance to African society, will have negative consequences.
THE CRIMINALISATION OF MIGRATION
Barbara Hudson argues that migrants seeking a new life are being unfairly criminalised by the states receiving them.
PULLING APART: NOTES ON THE WIDENING GAP IN THE RISKS OF VIOLENCE
Elliott Currie on the uneven class distribution of violence and mortality.
HOW TO ESCAPE THE LAW AND ORDER TRAP
Loïc Wacquant argues for an expansion of social and economic rights.
A ‘NEW POLITICS’ OF CRIME?
Ian Loader argues that Gordon Brown should adopt a fresh and more democratic approach to crime.