In June 2015, the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies co-hosted the 'Challenging state and corporate impunity: Is accountability possible?' conference in London.
Conference speakers and participants discussed the challenges involved in holding state and corporate institutions to...
Dr David Whyte of the University of Liverpool brings together a wide range of leading commentators and campaigners, offering a series of troubling answers, in his forthcoming book to be released on 20 March 2015 and published by...
Here's a selection of the best stuff we've read this month written by academics:
An entire virtual issue of the Howard Journal of Criminal Justice on the theme...
Dr David Whyte of Liverpool University, writing in ...
Over the past ten years, 519 people have died after contact with the police, either in custody (the great majority) or...
The title of this talk comes from a book published in 1994 called Thinking the Unthinkable. Starting in the 1930s, the book traces the intellectual resurgence and ultimate triumph of a...
What is it we mean when we talk about 'corruption'? The World Bank's definition of corruption, probably the most widely used is simply 'the abuse of public office for private gain'. This is the...
At least twice as many people die from fatal injuries at work than are victims of homicide, this latest report suggests.
