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Expanding criminal justice options by considering policies of other nations
The Justice Policy Institute of Washington DC has published an international comparison of criminal justice policies, titled Finding Direction.
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Income inequality and violence
Several studies have found that small reductions in income inequality cause large reductions in homicide, according to new research from the Equality Trust.
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Domestic violence: the facts, the issues, the future
Keir Starmer QC, Director of Public Prosecutions, focuses on data, past measures, future prosecution plans, stalking and young women in a recent speech.
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'I'd love to see you say that to a minister. You'd blow their mind'
Professor Alex Stevens' ethnographic study examines the use that is made of evidence in government policy making - including 'fart catching'.
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Immigration: David Cameron's speech
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'Spy helicopter' failure
In 2008 Essex police paid £22,000 for the Unmanned Autonomous System to spy on 'criminals', 'illegal migrants' and drug smugglers. Now it is for sale without once being used because it was never licensed.
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Anti-terrorism `stop and search' figures
In 2009-10, only two people were arrested for terrorism-related offences out of 92,000 stopped and search. 31% of people stopped (50% in London) were from ethnic minorities, according to...
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Parrots, drugs and undercover police
Parrot poaching in Bolivia, drug manufacturing in clandestine laboratories and undercover policing in Holland. It's difficult to know where to start in the March 2011 issue of the British Journal of Criminology...
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G20 kettling: it was illegal
The High Court has rulled that the Metropolitan police broke the law by kettling up to 5,000 demonstrators at the G20 protests in April 2009 and that it was `unjustified' because there...
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Prisoners' right to vote
The European Court of Human Right has given the UK a six-month deadline to create plans to allow prisoners to vote from 11 April 2011. The Daily Mail ...
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National statistician's review of crime statistics
The Home Secretary has invited the National Statistician to conduct an independent review of crime statistics with the aim of increasing public confidence in these statistics.
Professor Tim Hope wrote a response in collaboration with the Centre.
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Phone-hacking issue
Yates, the acting deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, admitted that Scotland Yard could have done more to get in touch with probable victims of phone-hacking. London Mayor...