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The report offers lessons for reform to tackle the relentless rise in prisoner numbers seen throughout the world.

A ground-breaking research programme, Understanding Conversion to Islam in Prison (UCIP), investigating the mobilisation and effects of Islamic religious change in European prisons, has joined the Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research at Birkbeck.

‘Understanding and reducing the use of imprisonment in ten countries’ is an international research and policy project being conducted under the Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research’s World Prison Research Programme.

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

The webinars are part of a free, online series available to the public to hear about Birkbeck's research and topical subjects relating to the Law and Criminology.

A new report, ‘Time to get it right: enhancing problem-solving practice in the Youth Court’, co-authored by the Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research (ICPR) at Birkbeck and the Centre for Justice Innovation, is published today.

A new research project will explore the use of ‘digital forensics’ in criminal cases, focusing on social media and messaging communications between suspects, victims and witnesses of crimes.

New report from The Institute for Criminal Policy Research warns of public health risks from prison overcrowding

An innovative study by the Institute for Criminal Policy Research at Birkbeck, in partnership with Victim Support and the Centre for Justice Innovation, will explore the impact of language barriers in criminal justice policy.

Prison populations continue to soar in much of the world, a new report published by the Institute for Criminal Policy Research shows.