Simon Parker, Coordinator End Child Detention Now, reports from Edinburgh on Catherine O’Shea’s chilling take on the UK asylum system
Before the riots, young people growing up in poverty in London faced the threat of criminalisation. Now, living publicly in the city as a deprived young person practically amounts to criminal activity
The government is embarking on large-scale privatisation of British prisons, despite research indicating that private prisons are more likely to be dangerous and more costly in the long run
Britain's baby boomers gave little thought to the next generation, while the state has gradually abrogated its duties towards the young. So don't denounce the parents of the rioters: it is the parents' generation that is to blame
A lecturer at Oxford University remembers her teenagehood as a native Jamaican in Hackney, one of London's poorest boroughs and one of the worst-hit by last week's riots. The reflection leads her to ask if she would have achieved success if she had grown up in the Britain of today
With China storming ahead of its neighbours in economic development, we are seeing an admiring India beginning to emulate some of the less attractive aspects of the Chinese style of government. Whose example should they follow?
A four-night outbreak of riotous disorder in London and other English cities in early August 2011 is a potent argument for social repair. But lack of agreement on fundamentals could soon prove fatal to progress, says David Hayes.
To understand the riots that swept across English cities, remember the carnival: a temporary lapse in the normal social order when the law is suspended and the oppressed become free
Half of the largest Irish Traveller Community in Britain must vacate their homes by the end of this month, or face the bulldozers. The eviction is to go ahead despite UN warnings that Britain is in danger of violating her international human rights obligations
What does it take to remoralize society? How do values actually work as social phenomena? Support services for children know that the most successful interventions are long-term ones, but these are not the most attractive options for politicians seeking eye-catching, new policy initiatives.
