An article by Catherine Heard on the impacts of COVID-19 on prison populations and wider justice systems worldwide has been published in a special, open access issue of the American journal Victims & Offenders.

ICPR Director Professor Jessica Jacobson has written a blog for the British Society of Criminology website on "Effective participation in criminal proceedings: principle and practice."

In this searing documentary film, former prisoners, prison guard whistle-blowers and an investigative journalist paint a shocking picture of South Africa's first privatized prison, Mangaung, in Bloemfontein.

Birkbeck’s Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research (ICPR) has published a new book which examines the meanings and importance of 'effective participation' in judicial proceedings.

Since its launch in September 2000, the World Prison Brief (hosted and published by the Institute for Crime & Justice ...

It’s 20 years today since the World Prison Brief (WPB) website was launched.

The 2020 European Criminology Award of the European Society of Criminology for lifetime contribution to criminology has been awarded to Professor Mike Hough, Founding Director of ICPR and Emeritus Professor at the School of Law, Birkbeck, for his significant contribution to European criminology. 

At a Birkbeck Inspires event on 25 August, Catherine Heard, Director of the World Prison Research Programme at Birkbeck’s Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research (ICPR), will present research on the extent of prison overcrowding worldwide, and the many factors that combine to create today’s unsustainable levels of incarceration.