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Agenda - Crime and Justice

Ekklesia’s work in this area has focused on restorative justice and reconfiguring the criminal justice system. Ekklesia is currently working on a new publication proposing a long term move toward abolition of traditional prisons.
  • 18 Nov
    2009
    The Archbishop and the anti-gay bill

    Commenting on the Ugandan bill to further criminalise homosexuality in the country, by imprisonment and capital punishment, Symon Hill, associate director of the religion and society thinktank Ekkl

  • 11 Nov
    2009
    A sane approach to drugs policy

    Commenting on the latest resignation of experts from the Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs, Simon Barrow, co-director of the think-tank Ekklesia said:

  • 1 Oct
    2009
    Arms trade corruption needs pursuing

    Commenting on the Serious Fraud Office's decision to prosecute arms giant BAE Systems over major corruption allegations, Symon Hill,associate director of the think-tank Ekklesia (who previously wor

  • 23 Jul
    2009
    Laws against blasphemy are an offence

    Commenting on the passing into Irish law of an offence of "blasphemous libel", Simon Barrow, co-director of the religion, society and politics thinktank Ekklesia, said:

  • 3 Jun
    2009
    Arming Sri Lanka, corrupting governance

    Commenting on the revelation that the UK government has been colluding with arms sales to Sri Lanka, Symon Hill, the new associate director of the think-tank Ekklesia, declared:

  • 16 Apr
    2009
    Deportation of John Demjanjuk, Nazi War Criminal, Jeremy Vine Show BBC Radio 2
    Jonathan Bartley discusses justice and war crimes, following the halt by the US appeals court of the deportation of accused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk
  • 2 Mar
    2009
    Christians and equalities provisions

    Commenting on Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor's suggestion that equalities legislation in Britain is threatening freedom of religion, Simon Barrow, co-director of the religion and society thinktank

  • 29 Jan
    2009
    Want to know what's on tomorrow's news agenda, today?

    A brand new service from the religion and society thinktank Ekklesia details what's on the agenda in the next four weeks with regard to religion and public life.

  • 14 Jan
    2009
    Alternatives to jailing a fat man, Jeremy Vine show, BBC Radio 2
    Ekklesia co-director puts forward alternatives to prison, following the news that a man's prison sentence was commuted by a judge because he was "too fat for prison"
  • 13 Jan
    2009
    Broaden the Geneva Convention on Refugees

    Responding to the latest comments from UK immigration Phil Woolas, Ekklesia associate Vaughan Jones, who heads up the agency Praxis, which works with displaced people, said:

  • 11 Jun
    2008
    42 day detention without trial

    Ekklesia's response to the crucial parliamentary vote on 42 day detention without trial.

  • 16 May
    2008
    Faith bodies should end discriminatory practices

    Responding to the decision by an employment tribunal that a Christian charity constructively dismissed a former employee, himself a Christian, when he refused to discriminate against non-Christians

  • 12 Feb
    2008
    Conscience and religious exemptions

    Commenting on the Archbishop of Canterbury's claim that rights of conscience for religion necessitate the granting of exemptions from UK legislation, the Christian think-tank Ekklesia says that whi

  • 11 Feb
    2008
    Williams, Sharia and global justice issues

    Responding to links being made between the debate about family Sharia in Britain and the situation in Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere, Simon Barrow of the religion and society think-tank Ekkles

  • 8 Feb
    2008
    Civil law and religious practice

    Responding the Archbishop of Canterbury's lecture and interview on religious and civil law, Simon Barrow, co-director of the religion and society think-tank Ekklesia, said that Dr Williams’ senti

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