Police officer numbers have fallen

Police funding in England and Wales

Have armed police numbers been cut?

Prisons

The state of prisons in England and Wales

Are our prisons "filling up with foreigners"?

The number of frontline prison officers is falling

Does re-offending cost £13 billion a year?

Debates

Fairness in the justice system

9th Aug 2016

Black people and justice: the viral poster, factchecked

A poster about the differences between white and black people's experiences of work and criminal justice in the UK has been circulating on social media.

28th Nov 2016

Young offenders from ethnic minorities

5th Aug 2016

Deaths of BAME people in police custody

Sexual offences

10th Aug 2016

The scale of abuse during childhood: how much do we know?

An estimated six million adults in England and Wales report having been abused as children, and two million report having been sexually abused.

19th Aug 2016

Reporting sexual offences in schools: an incomplete picture

29th Jan 2015

Men accused of rape don't have to "prove that a woman said Yes"

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