Crime and Justice

As Andrew Malkinson's case shows, the Criminal Cases Review Commission has become an organisation obsessed with hitting key performance indicators – mainly relating to deadlines and ‘closing’ files, writes Jon Robins

The salaries of specialist probation officers who manage sex offenders are being cut - and 77% say they plan to leave the job

David Meller CBE allegedly appeared to acknowledge on the recording that the money belonged to Michael Sherwood and asked that the request be kept "secret"

A lawyer with 25 years of experience in the criminal justice system critiques the "underwhelming" pledges made in party manifestos

The latest episode of the hit Media Storm podcast focuses on the most common mainstream myths around women and sexual assault that are perpetuated through journalism

Private eye at heart of phone-hacking scandal claims he was wrongly convicted twice for same crime as he launches "vindicating" book

Andrew Kersley spent five months speaking to survivors of child sexual exploitation and experts on the ‘grooming’ of vulnerable women by far-right groups to understand why it is happening

Part Two: The interconnectedness of far-right groups reflects the extent to which those holding extreme beliefs have used the issue of child sexual exploitation to further their own ends

Part Three: In 2020, a two-year study of crime data and academic research by the Home Office concluded that 'group-based offenders are most commonly white'

Part Four: The far-right is able to present itself as ‘filling the gap’ left by a lack of services with its own range of 'support' for survivors