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Child abuse prosecutions down as search engines step up content control
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are among companies that plan to block common search terms linked to child abuse images, The Guardian reports. The search engine giants...
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Malnutrition hospital admissions nearly double in five years
The Independent reports on a near twofold rise in hospital admissions where malnutrition is identified as an...
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Diverting from criminal justice
Last month we invited short contributions for our website on downsizing criminal justice and rebuilding policy and practice alternatives to it. Professor Kevin Haines and Dr Stephen Case took up the challenge,...
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Call for G4S to be prosecuted for war crimes
Hussam Association, a Gaza based organisation for current and former Palestinian detainees of Israeli jails, has called for the prosecution of G4S officials for the company’s involvement in war crimes and crimes against humanity against Palestinian prisoners. G4S holds contracts with the Israeli...
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PM accuses poor of low aspirations
The Prime Minister, David Cameron has suggested that the reason that young, working class individuals do not get ahead in life because they have low aspirations,...
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May wrong to treat citizenship as a privilege to be removed
Matthew Gibney, reader in Politics and Forced Migration at the University of Oxford, argues against Home Secretary Theresa May’s plans to strip citizenship from suspected terror suspects leaving them stateless, an extension on the current powers which allow the stripping of British citizenship...
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Grayling's repeat caution ban pledge
The Independent reports on plans by Justice Secretary Chris Grayling to ban repeat cautions.
As shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling gave a...
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Wot no speech?
Before the 2010 General Election the current Justice Secretary Chris Grayling was the shadow Home Secretary.
In November 2009 we hosted Mr Grayling as he gave a keynote speech setting out how a future Conservative government would approach law and order questions. 'It's very easy for the...
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'Put them in chains'
During a commons debate on the bedroom tax yesterday Tory MP for Monmouth David Davies (not to be confused with the better known Haltemprice and Howden MP David Davis) shared...
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My brain made me do it
The United States is seeing a rise in defendants relying on neuroscience arguments to win court room acquittals, Ian Lawrence reports in The Guardian.
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Four prisons to close in Sweden
Sweden is set to close four prisons and a remand centre following a sharp drop in prison admissions, reports The Guardian. While no official explanation has been...
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On yogi bear and private security companies
We enjoyed this tweet on the perils of privatisation.
Asking a private company to serve the public is like asking yogi bear to guard the picnic baskets.
— DietmarHipplegrubber (@hipplegrubber)...