Briefing Papers & Reports - UK
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In racism’s echo chamber: the government and criminal justice system’s response to the summer 2024
The IRR commissioned criminologist Dr Jon Burnett to study government, policy and prosecutorial responses to the summer 2024 riots because of concern that the violence was being treated as a simple public order matter -- ‘thuggery’ across the ‘ideological spectrum’-- bypassing both the serious nature of the racist violence in England and its root causes. -
Enforcing Britishness: from the ‘numbers game’ to far-right vigilantism
This briefing paper is aimed at providing community sector voices, concerned politicians and policy makers with an overview of trends on the far Right, also examining developments in electoral politics, and international hard Right movements, that serve to amplify far-right themes. -
Mainstreaming hate: how the Right exploits the crisis to divide us
An IRR briefing paper that suggests ways we can push back against far-right ideas as they pass into the mainstream -
Citizenship: from right to privilege
£0.00 Citizenship-stripping powers introduced since 2002 have enshrined a ‘second-class citizenship’ in the UK, mainly affecting British Muslims, says IRR vice-chair Frances Webber, in this report. -
A threat to public safety: policing, racism and the Covid-19 pandemic
£0.00 A threat to public safety: policing, racism and the Covid-19 pandemic raises concerns about the policing of the pandemic and shows that racially minoritised communities have been most harshly affected – being more likely to be stopped by the police, threatened or subject to police violence and falsely accused of rule-breaking and wrong-doing. -
How Black Working-Class Youth are Criminalised and Excluded in the English School System
£0.00 IRR Researcher Jessica Perera takes a fresh look at the PRU-to-prison pipeline in London. -
The London Clearances: Race, Housing and Policing
£2.50 The London Clearances: Race, Housing and Policing is a background paper that looks at the impact of financialisation on local authority housing and its convergence with location-specific intensive and intrusive policing. Download a free digital copy -
The Embedding of State Hostility: a background paper on the Windrush Scandal
£3.00 The Embedding of State Hostility: a background paper on the Windrush scandal is a briefing that shows how the injustices meted out to the Windrush generation are not anomalies but the logical result of an immigration system that, over many years, has weaponised the idea of ‘the illegal immigrant’. -
Racial violence and the Brexit state
£3.00 Racial violence and the Brexit state examines the link between the language and behaviour of perpetrators of racial violence, the rhetoric and policy pronouncements of politicians over recent years and the stigmatising frameworks of the media. Download a free copy -
Entitlement and belonging
Entitlement and belonging: social restructuring and multicultural Britain examines the Housing and Planning and Immigration Bills 2015-16. It suggests they will accelerate the break-up and displacement of multicultural neighbourhoods, whilst facilitating the development of a 'SUS culture' as the ‘hostile environment principle’, long- established in immigration policy, is extended into housing. Download a free copy -
Prevent and the Children’s Rights Convention
Prevent and the Children’s Rights Convention tests the duty placed on schools to prevent children being drawn in to terrorism against key articles in the United Nations Children’s Rights Convention (COROC). Download a free copy -
Briefing Paper no. 9
The briefing paper, Hidden despair: The deaths of foreign national prisoners, by Frances Webber, examines recent suicides of foreign national prisoners in prisons and young offenders institutions. Download a free copy