It has become fashionable for first-world donors to embrace ‘community policing’ for developing-world security programmes. But context is everything.
The massacre at a university in Kenya should lead the government to a recognition that repressive and discriminatory reactions, however tempting, have only fuelled such horrific violence.
Government reforms put prisoners and staff at risk. A frontline officer talks to Prison UK’s Alex Cavendish. (See also How to survive in prison, by a former inmate).
Amid a crisis of suicides and assaults across prisons in England and Wales, one former inmate offers advice on staying safe. (See also: Danger, overcrowding, no time to talk: a UK prison officer speaks out).
The British Government is opposed to the death penalty “in all circumstances” . . . Except when it’s not.
After the Nigerian presidential election, the new government must address the social and economic policy vacuum Boko Haram has filled if the threat from the Islamists is to be tackled.
In youth justice, time and again, adults let children down, says Just for Kids Law.
Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi and Clare Sambrook are among 15 writers in contention for one of journalism’s highest honours.
509 suspicious deaths of people from BME, migrant and asylum seeker communities in state custody over 23 years. Five prosecutions. Not one single conviction. A chilling report from the Institute of Race Relations.
Actors, comedians and film-makers raise awareness of devastating cuts.
As Ukraine turns into an oligarch republic, civil society has few chances left to make itself the true victor of EuroMaidan.
