What is crime? – Resources
In thinking about the question of what crime is, what it isn't and who gets to decide, the following articles, publications and resources may be of interest.
Interesting news articles...
- Business fraud on rise amid credit crunch, Financial Times, 30/06/08
- Migrant builder took home £8.80 for a week, The Guardian, 30/06/08
- Food poison alert after fraudsters steal trader's identity to place £2m orders, The Times, 30/06/08
- What is safety crime and is it Labour's fault?, The Guardian website, 17/06/08
- More deaths at work than murders, The Metro, 17/06/08
- Plane companies accused of 'environmental vandalism'The Times, 16/07/08
- Fare dodging: Britain's guilt free, middle class criminals, Crime Reduction Partnership News, 15/07/08
- We're choking to death while the Government dithers, The Independent, 04/07/08
- War and peace index published, The Guardian, 21/05/08
- Worry about poverty makes elderly ill, The Guardian, 20/05/08
- Tax evasion `costs lives of 5.6m children', The Independent, 12/05/08
- Thousands of elderly abused in care homes, Sunday Telegraph, 04/05/08
- Shock rise in violence against UK's children, The Observer, 20/04/08
- Pneumonia from traffic fumes 'kill thousands', Daily Telegraph, 18/04/08
- Exposed: Energy giant cheats its customers, Sunday Times, 06/04/08
- What he did seems inhuman (violence against pregnant women), The Guardian, 02/04/08
- Children in poor areas 'at greater risk of road injury', The Times, 01/04/08
- Failure to tackle fuel poverty a social disaster, ministers told, The Guardian, 27/03/08
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Our publications...
We will be publishing a series of What is crime? research and policy briefing papers. To view, click here.
Other past publications produced by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies which raise questions about what crime is can be viewed below;
- Farepak victims speak out (November 2007)
- Knowledgeable consumers? Corporate fraud and its devastating impacts (August 2007)
- Law abiding majority? The everyday crimes of the middle classes (June 2007)
- Does criminal justice work? The `Right for the wrong reasons' debate (October 2006)
- Criminal obsessions: Why harm matters more than crime (October 2005)
Other websites and resources...
- What are today's social evils? The Joseph Rowntree Foundation investigates, April 2008.
- Dying on the inside. Inquest's examination of women's deaths in prison, April 2008.