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Research demonstrates that memory is highly suggestible so many methods have been introduced to reduce the possibility of mistaken identity. 'Psychologists are continuing to refine and develop these areas'...
Teachers will be given investigation powers including confiscating pupils' mobile phones and searching mobile phones for evidence of cyber-bullying.
Education Secretary Michael Gove also said that that the number of no-notice inspections will increase. The Daily Mail...
The recommendations of a panel headed by David Norgrove include time limits for family justice cases to help children involved in their parents' divorcing process; mediation...
Corporate Watch has published a new briefing: Immigration Prisons: Brutal, Unlawful and Profitable.
UK and US figures show the correlation between prison numbers and crime rates is far from clear, writes Richard Garside in The Guardian.
Using the colour of a person's skin to seek explanations for criminal behaviour is racist claptrap, writes Richard Garside in The Guardian.
Responding to calls by the National Association of Headteachers for mephedrone to be banned, Professor David Nutt, chair of the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs (ISCD) said:
'I support the Home Secretary's position that a rush into classifying mephedrone is premature
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The winners of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies photographic competition, sponsored by the Wates Foundation, were published in The Independent newspaper.
The competition asked for visual answers to the question What is crime? The photographs were also be exhibited at 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning, near Brixton, south London.
The Independent reported:
The resulting exhibition, to be mounted in association
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In an interview on the BBC Today programme at 8.30 am this morning Richard Garside argued that male dominance of women in society needed to be systematically challenged if sexual assaults are to be effectively tackled...
A report in today's Times newspaper cited research conducted for the Children's Commissioner for England, which suggested that police stop and search tactics cut gun and knife crime.
As the author of the research cited in...
Richard Garside wrote a piece for The Guardian 'comment is free' site, arguing that the age of criminal responsibility should be raised to at least 16, and probably 18.
Richard Garside reviewed the Mayor of London's new plan on youth violence on The Guardian's Comment is free website. He argued that there was little original thinking and suggests that 'the...
