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Gerry Adams calls for victim-centred resolution
Writing in this morning's Guardian, Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams calls for a 'victim-centred way' to deal with the legacy of violence and conflict...
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Poverty, not brain development, behind family problems
Patrick Butler reports in today's Guardian on claims that early childhood brain development is the main cause of later social problems....
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Tough on crime, tough on the unemployed
In a further sign of a punitive turn in employment policy, The Times reports (subscription required) that the long-term unemployed could soon find themselves working alongside those on court-...
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Police failing to record crime allegations
Writing last month on this site, Professor Tim Hope observed that the most surprising thing about the realisation that the police manipulate crime statistics is that it should have come as any surprise at all.
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British children dying from poverty
A study by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and the National Children's Bureau claims that thousands of children in Britain die each year as a result of poverty,...
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Our April eBulletin is out
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Prison governors told to slash costs
Back in November 2012, in his first major speech as Justice Secretary, Chris Grayling said that 'we have to focus on making the prison system cheaper not smaller'.
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'We don't know very much at all' about crime trends
Last week our director Richard Garside argued that 'data on different crime types is not what it's cracked up to be and most of the current explanations for observed crime trends are variously unevidenced and unconvincing.'
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Yes but no but. Journalists debate crime trends
Yesterday's publication of the latest quarterly crime statistics has given journalists plenty to chew over.
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Fall in hospital visits for serious violence
An estimated 234,509 people sought treatment at hospital accident and emergency departments across England and Wales in 2013 following serious violence injury, The Guardian, among other papers,...
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Who funds the police?
Our colleague Dr Roger Grimshaw came across this interesting figure from a recent parliamentary briefing note on police funding in England and Wales.
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British Journal of Criminology- May 2014 issue now available
The May 2014 issue of the British Journal of Criminology (Issue 54, Vol.3) is out now.
Sadiya Akram's article, 'Recognising...