On 9 June 2017, ICPR Director Dr Jessica Jacobson gave a paper on 'Understanding and reducing the resort to custody: Evidence from 10 countries' at the European Conference of the Sentencing and Penal Decision-Making European Group, held in Edinburgh.
Plenary speakers at the conference included the Rt Hon Lady Dorrian and Professor Andrew Coyle.
Dr Jacobson's presentation can be found here
ICPR has produced the thirty eighth issue of the International Prison News Digest, a selection of news items from around the world on prison and the use of imprisonment. The Digest is produced bi-monthly and this issue covers the period from 1 March to 30 April 2017.
In this 20 minute podcast, Catherine Heard, Director of ICPR’s World Prison Research Programme, discusses highlights from our March 2017 report looking at disparities in prison use in ten countries across all five continents.
https://soundcloud.com/birkbeck-podcasts/understanding-and-reducing-the-...
Overcrowding, inhumane and degrading detention conditions and disproportionate harm to marginalised groups are some of the consequences of the rapid, unrelenting growth of imprisonment worldwide, according to Prison: Evidence of its use and over-use from around the world, published today [16 March] by the Institute for Criminal Policy Research (ICPR), Birkbeck, University of London, and the NGO, Fair Trials.
ICPR has produced the thirty seventh issue of the International Prison News Digest, a selection of news items from around the world on prison and the use of imprisonment. The Digest is produced bi-monthly and this issue covers the period from 1 January to 28 February 2017.
Around three million people are held in pre-trial detention and other forms of remand imprisonment throughout the world, new report published by the Institute for Criminal Policy Research shows.
Outgoing US President Barack Obama uses World Prison Brief data in an article reflecting on his reform record, and on the key challenges remaining
ICPR has produced the thirty sixth issue of the International Prison News Digest, a selection of news items from around the world on prison and the use of imprisonment. The Digest is produced bi-monthly and this issue covers the period from 1 November to 31 December 2016.
Today sees the publication of two briefings authored by Jessica Jacobson and Helen Fair of the Institute for Criminal Policy Research, Birkbeck. The briefings highlight learning from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust (WCMT) Prison Reform Fellowships, which have a particular focus on prison reform across the world.
On 21 October, the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research, in collaboration with the Institute for Criminal Policy Research hosted a colloquium to discuss Risk and Vulnerability in Prison Populations. Carmel Kavanagh, an intern at the ICPR, reflects on the discussion, which you can read here