Policing and criminal justice system
The Court of appeal has granted the mother of Mark Duggan, Pamela, permission to legally challenge the police practice of conferring before producing a statement.
A man has been charged with arson with intent to endanger life and a racially aggravated offence after a fire at a mosque in Bletchley.
Following a report by Mark Ellison QC, which found the police had planted 'a spy in the Lawrence family camp' during the investigation into his death, a judge-led public inquiry into the work of undercover policing will take place.
Recent Publications
January 23, 2014
Investigated or ignored?
Investigated or ignored? An analysis of race-related deaths since the Macpherson report, analyses the criminal justice system's response to racist murders, or atacks with a known or suspected racial element, since the publication of the Macpherson report.
January 9, 2014
Race & Class, January 2014
In the new issue of Race & Class, three distinguished academics from Sweden's Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society, examine the 2013 'riots' in Sweden, comparing these to the August 2011 'riots' in the UK, and similar disturbances across the French banlieues in 2005.
October 16, 2013
Race & Class, October 2013
In the October 2013 issue of Race & Class, Phil Scraton examines the legacy of the Hillsborough football stadium disaster, which claimed the lives of ninety-six people.
May 8, 2013
Europe’s pariah state? the future of human rights in Britain
A report on the future of human rights in Britain.
Upcoming Events
A meeting organised by the International State Crime Initiative (ISCI) and the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) looks at the current discourse on extremism and challenges and its underlying assumptions.
A public lecture hosted by the Haldane Society on how the political and media demonisation of migrants affects the rule of law.
Mar 6 2014
Law overridden to penalise refugees
Fifteen years after the High Court condemned the prosecution of refugees for using false documents in their quest for a place of safety and parliament provided a statutory defence, they are still being wrongly convicted and sent to prison.
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