Tag Archives: Crime and Justice

Britons suffer far more card frauds than people in any European country. UK losses from card fraud are also much higher. This is revealed in SMF analysis of European Central...

Making out of court disposals – including cautions, fines, treatment programmes and curfews – available without a guilty plea would make the criminal justice system work better for Black, Asian...

Speech by Jesse Norman MP 'The EU Court of Justice and the EU Charter: An independent view', to the Social Market Foundation on 16 May 2016.

New research released today by the Social Market Foundation reveals the extent of the relationship between property crime rates and the changing prices of consumer goods and suggests that investments in security and ‘predictive policing’ – where police work adapts to market prices – could help lower crime rates.

Following the Public Accounts Committee report into private contractors and public spending, Social Market Foundation Research Director and author of a forthcoming SMF report on the use of private contractors in reoffender rehabilitation services, Nigel Keohane sets out his thoughts on the need for transparency and honesty in contracting out public services.

The Government’s plans to introduce ‘payment-by-results’ into the probation system risk backfiring because their proposals mean that private and third sector organisations are in danger of losing money if they try to cut re-offending, new analysis finds today (Friday 9 August).

Harnessing private cash to finance public services via ‘Social Impact Bonds’ could be an important way to boost innovation in these services but is unlikely to appeal to mainstream investors because of the impossibly high risks they would have to shoulder, new SMF research reveals today (Wednesday 31 July).

Prisons Minister Crispin Blunt spoke at the Social Market Foundation's annual justice conference on "Reviewing the Rehabilitation Revolution".

Leader of the Opposition Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP has today delivered a speech to the Social Market Foundation to launch the SMF's latest publications, Markets in a State.