News
Webinar clip: Domestic homicide and differential treatment
Our recent episode of 'Last month in criminal justice' featured a discussion on the conviction of Penelope Jackson.
News
Are concerns about rising murder rates justified?
The death by shooting of a 17-year-old girl in Tottenham has raised fresh concerns about apparently rising violent crime in London.
According to official data, there were 100 suspected homicides in London in the 12 months to March 2012. The following year, it rose to 109, before falling. In the...
Publication
The social study of serial killers
The study of serial killers has been dominated by an individualised focus on studying the biography of offenders and the causes of their behaviour. Popular representations of Jeffrey Dahmer, Harold Shipman, John Wayne Gacy and other notorious figures emphasise the sociopathic tendencies of the lone...
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Latest signs of a renewed law and order auction
The law and order rhetoric appears to be heating up in advance of the 2015 General Election and in reaction to the fatal stabbing of school teacher Ann Maguire.
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Comment
Trends in knife homicide in England and Wales
There is no getting away from the awfulness of what unfolded yesterday at Corpus Christi Catholic College. The fatal stabbing of...
Comment
Homicidal thoughts
Good news of sorts. Latest figures from the Home...
Publication
Criminal obsessions: Why harm matters more than crime (2nd edition)
Criminal obsessions is an innovative, groundbreaking critique of conventional criminological approaches to social issues.