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Tag: Criminal justice

Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) (Scotland) Bill – looking ahead to Stage 3

June 22, 2022 SPICe

Reading Time: 17 minutes An extended blogpost on the Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) (Scotland) Bill, looking ahead to Stage 3.

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Settled Status and Criminal Records

June 4, 2021 SPICe

Reading Time: 4 minutes This blog looks at some of the issues related to applications for settled status by prisoners and those with a criminal record

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Brexit and EU justice policy – the final countdown?

December 22, 2020 SPICe

Reading Time: 4 minutes During the next two days, SPICe will publish four blogs examining the impact of a no-deal Brexit.  This blog examines what no-deal would mean for

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Forensic Medical Services (Victims of Sexual Offences) (Scotland) Bill – what’s happened in the Parliament so far?

December 1, 2020 SPICe

Reading Time: 4 minutes A summary of the Forensic Medical Services Bill and its consideration at Stages 1 and 2, in time for the Stage 3 debate.

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Coronavirus (Covid-19): trial by jury

May 14, 2020 SPICe

Reading Time: 8 minutes This blog outlines what has been happening in relation to jury trials following the introduction of social distancing restrictions.

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Coronavirus (Covid-19): prisoner numbers

May 11, 2020 SPICe

Reading Time: 4 minutes This blog looks at the impact on prisoner numbers of measures taken in response to the coronavirus

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Coronavirus (COVID-19) – social distancing

April 3, 2020 SPICe

Reading Time: 3 minutes This blog outlines restrictions placed on the general public in Scotland with the aim of limiting the spread of  Coronavirus (COVID-19) through social distancing.

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Twenty Years of Imprisonment

November 4, 2019 SPICe

Reading Time: 12 minutes As part of the programme to mark 20 years of the Scottish Parliament, this blog looks at the use of imprisonment since devolution.

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Does your face fit?

July 18, 2019 SPICe

Reading Time: 4 minutes This post looks at the need to balance the use of biometrics in tackling crime whilst also protecting the privacy and human rights of individuals.

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A new approach to women offenders in Scotland

July 11, 2018 SPICe

Reading Time: 5 minutes Where were we? Scotland has come a long way in its approach to women offenders in recent years. For example, until the mid 2000s, women

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