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Young offender

Self-harm and violence rates in Young Offender Institutions

13 November 2018

New statistics reveal shocking picture in England and Wales

Heledd Ainsworth

Welsh education scholarship awarded to Cardiff Law student

1 November 2018

For the second year running, a School of Law and Politics student has been awarded a prestigious William Salesbury Scholarship.

A photo of discarded tyres

Cardiff academic cited in United Nations environmental study

15 October 2018

A book on environmental crime by a Cardiff Law academic has recently been cited in a United Nations Study.

Britain break-up

May’s ‘Precious Union’ has little support in Brexit Britain

9 October 2018

New research casts doubt on future of a United Kingdom

A man at a computer looking at data charts

Untapped resources and quantitative data explored in new interdisciplinary research centre

8 October 2018

An innovative research centre which aims to use previously untapped data sources and cutting edge research methods has been launched by the School of Law and Politics.

Dr Lydia Hayes with former High Court judge Dame Linda Dobbs at the Inner Temple, London.

Stories of Care wins Society of Legal Scholars prize

20 September 2018

A book which explores the day-to-day sexism and class-bias encountered by homecare workers has won the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) Peter Birks second prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship.

Year abroad opportunity announced for new cohort of legal learners

13 September 2018

LLB Law students given opportunity to study abroad in Spain, the Czech Republic or Poland

Prison

New data reveals scale of drug and alcohol finds in Welsh prisons

10 September 2018

Wales Governance Centre presents evidence to Welsh Affairs Committee

Ambreena

Fostering African studies around the world

4 September 2018

Scholar to lead the way in promoting research

Prison

Widespread dispersal of prisoners revealed in new data

20 August 2018

Previously unpublished statistics show scale of prisoner dispersal