Policing and criminal justice system
Recent Publications
May 8, 2013
Europe’s pariah state? the future of human rights in Britain
A report on the future of human rights in Britain.
April 4, 2013
Briefing Paper no. 6
State intelligence agencies and the far Right: A review of developments in Germany, Hungary and Austria examines the security services’ approach to the far Right and finds that far from clamping down on growing fascism, some of the tactics of security services are enhancing conditions for its growth.
April 4, 2013
Race & Class, April 2013
The April 2013 issue of Race & Class contains a special section on Cuts, crime and racialisation, which examines how neoliberalism, at a time of austerity, changes the very nature of racism and criminal justice.
January 15, 2013
Race & Class, January 2013
In the January 2013 issue of Race & Class, A. Sivanandan analyses the rise of neoliberalism in the UK, arguing that the market state no longer serves the nation, but transnational capital.
July 30, 2012
New geographies of racism: Peterborough
A report focusing on racial violence in Peterborough, where the city’s migrant workers have been demonised and vilified by the tabloids in recent years.
June 22, 2012
Race & Class, July 2012
The July 2012 issue of Race & Class, the lead article ‘Four days in August: the UK riots’ examines reports and inquiries conducted in the aftermath of last summer’s disturbances in the UK.
October 5, 2010
Race & Class, October 2010
Race & Class, October 2010, leads with an article by Nancy Murray on 'Profiling in the age of total information awareness'. In the US, such awareness linked to racial profiling and implemented by the little accountable Joint-Terrorism Task Forces is especially focused on Muslims, immigrants and prisoners.
June 1, 2010
Racial violence: the buried issue
A report on dangerously high levels of racial violence in the UK – a violence which is spreading into new areas.
November 12, 2009
European Race Bulletin no. 69
The Autumn 2009 issue of the European Race Bulletin comprises a detailed article on 'Foreign nationals, enemy penology and the criminal justice system' plus reports on the recent elections and the Swiss referendum on minarets.
October 17, 2009
Spooked: how not to prevent violent extremism
Spooked: how not to prevent violent extremism, suggests that the Prevent programme has been used to establish one of the most elaborate systems of surveillance ever seen in Britain.
August 7, 2008
European Race Bulletin no. 64
The Summer 2008 issue of the European Race Bulletin examines 'The Italian general election and its aftermath', plus an article on a death in police custody in France by Virginia MacFadyen.
May 27, 2008
European Race Bulletin no. 63
The Spring 2008 issue of European Race Bulletin examines the emergence across Europe of a new mobilisation against 'foreign criminals'.
April 4, 2007
UK: racism and the state 2007
In this special edition of Race & Class, leading black and anti-racist activists, campaigners and scholars chart the new parameters of state racism in the UK today.
October 1, 2001
The three faces of British racism
A wide-ranging report exposing racism in government policy, institutions and popular culture.
March 7, 2001
Counting the cost
An IRR report on how institutions have responded to incidents of racial violence.
July 1, 1993
Black America: the street and the campus
What does the politics of the street signify and how do the academics interpret it?
January 1, 1993
Resource directory on ‘race’ and racism in social work
A bibliographical guide covering elders, families, community care, HIV/AIDS, mental health, probation and criminal justice.
January 1, 1991
Deadly silence: black deaths in custody
The first comprehensive study in Britain on how black people have died in the custody of the police, prisons and special hospitals.
October 1, 1987
Policing Against Black People
This major report on policing in Britain demonstrates how a whole underclass of black people, situated in the most deprived areas of the inner city, have been marked out for a particular form of policing.