I really hope the sentencing review focuses on women in prison and finds better alternatives.

I appreciate the harms antisocial behaviour can cause communities, however, we’ll be stuck in this endless cycle of prison crisis unless governments’ reliance on pointless ‘crackdowns’ & use of prison as a deterrence ends, and we find alternative solutions to imprisoning people we’re mad at

Another example of government inconsistency and the challenges the sentencing review will face in reducing the prison population.

amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

How true crime became “victim-centred” The genre can no longer justify itself in terms of entertainment value alone. Enter the ubiquitous invocation of the victim.

This is an interesting article about the growth of the ‘true crime industry’ and how it undermines criminology. The serial killer exhibition it describes seems particularly distasteful.
www.newstatesman.com/culture/2024...