ICPR wins public engagement award for its prisons research

Birkbeck’s annual Public Engagement Awards recognise and celebrate researchers who have undertaken innovative and exemplary public engagement activities. ICPR has won this year’s Birkbeck Public Engagement award in the category ‘public participation in research’. This category recognises projects in which the involvement of the public or various publics is an inherent part of the research process.

Bridging the gap between reformists and abolitionists: Can non-reformist reforms guide the work of prison inspectorates?

Dr Sarah Lamble is a Reader in Criminology and Queer Theory at the School of Law, Birkbeck and researches issues of gender, sexuality and imprisonment, as well as alternative forms of justice.

New report: Language barriers in the criminal justice system

This report and summary is part of the series Language barriers in the criminal justice system from the Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research, Victim Support and the Centre for Justice Innovation, funded by The Bell Foundation.

Judging Values and Participation in Mental Capacity Law Conference

Is there something unique about being a lawyer or judge in the Court of Protection (CoP)? Could this uniqueness have something to do with the values that CoP professionals have? This conference will look at these questions, as well as key practical challenges for lawyers, participants, and decision-makers who are charged with applying the Mental Capacity Act 2005 in England and Wales.

Job Vacancy - Senior Research Fellow, project on prison-based work and employment in UK, Brazil, USA

Ready to lead a cutting-edge comparative prisons research project? We are recruiting for a Senior Research Fellow to research prison-based work and employment in UK, Brazil, USA.

ICPR annual lecture, 18 January 2022: 'Do prisons work? If not, do prisons inspectorates do more harm than good?’

Do prisons work? If not, do prisons inspectorates do more harm than good? Justice Edwin Cameron will consider these questions in a lecture titled: ‘Prisons and prisons inspectorates: puzzles and paradoxes'.

Prison populations continue to rise in many parts of the world, new report published by the Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research shows.

Some 11.5 million people are held in penal institutions throughout the world, according to the latest edition of the World Prison Population List (WPPL), researched and compiled by Helen Fair and Roy Walmsley and published on 1 December 2021.

Researchers meet the training needs of specialist lawyers

Researchers on the AHRC-funded project, Judging Values and Participation in Mental Capacity Law, based at the ICPR, Birkbeck School of Law, have pioneered a training film for specialist lawyers who work in the Court of Protection.