The Welsh Criminal Justice System: On the Jagged Edge

Wales has the highest imprisonment rate in Western Europe for men and the third highest for women but until recently we simply didn't know about it. Unlike Northern Ireland and Scotland, Wales doesn't have control over its own justice and policing system and instead it is part of the 'England and Wales' system. Many would argue that this is de facto an 'England, including Wales' system as Wales is a relatively small part of the system and largely an afterthought and until very recently there simply wasn't any Wales-specific data published by the UK Government.

Thanks to years of Freedom of Information (FOI) requests and other new research Dr Rob Jones and Prof. Richard Wyn Jones have been able to produce a groundbreaking book exploring the state of the Welsh criminal justice system and the problems caused by trying to maintain a Westminster-centric system in the age of devolution.

In this recording, Richard and Rob discuss the challenges facing these core public services as they try to serve two different masters of two very different political persuasions in London and Cardiff.

Recorded live at Storyville Books, Pontypridd and with kind permission of University of Wales Press and also available as a video: https://youtu.be/wNBjmkh8NFE

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Buy The Welsh Criminal Justice System: On the Jagged Edge from UWP: https://www.uwp.co.uk/book/the-welsh-criminal-justice-system/

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