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cjm 98: How violent is Britain?

Monday, 17 November 2014

Following the conference in Liverpool earlier this year in May, this December 2014 issue focusses on ‘How violent is Britain?’

David Whyte gathers contributions from those who spoke at the conference, including Vickie Cooper, Victoria Canning, Will Jackson and Helen Monk, and Barry Goldson.

Amongst the topical and comment articles, Nina Vaswani reports on her research findings on how bereavement affects young men in custody; Mari-Helen Maras discusses the unexplored underworld of cyberspace and David Faulkner offers advice for an incoming government.

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How Violent is Britain?

In this edition

Editorial: How violent is Britain?

David Whyte introduces this issue of cjm

By David Whyte

Challenging the legitimate right to violence

David Whyte argues that challenging the violence of public institutions and corporations, means challenging their state-given right to commit violence with impunity

By David Whyte

Corporate memory and the McGurk’s Bar Massacre

Ciarán MacAirt writes about the murder of his grandmother and 14 other civilians in a Belfast bar 43 years ago, and the families’ on-going campaign for truth

By Ciarán MacAirt

Bricks and mortality: the violence of coalition housing policy

As the last remnants of housing rights are eroded, Vickie Cooper contends that the harsh cuts on housing benefit allowances are profoundly violent

By Vickie Cooper

Women, asylum and the harms of detention

Victoria Canning argues that our government’s treatment of survivors of torture, sexual violence, and persecution is too often degrading and dehumanising

By Victoria Canning

Police violence at antifracking protests: pacifying disruptive subjects

Will Jackson and Helen Monk maintain that the ‘extreme’ policing of anti-fracking protestors needs to be understood as a routine function of policing

By Will Jackson and Helen Monk

Violence, child prisoners and institutionalised impunity

Barry Goldson asserts that violence against children is endemic but largely ignored

By Barry Goldson

Vulnerable individuals or harmful institutions?

J M Moore questions whether the current review of deaths in custody goes far enough

By J M Moore

Migrants, the National Health Service, and the threat of exclusion

David Stuckler and Sarah Steele point out that dog-whistle immigration politics are incompatible with the founding principles of the NHS

By David Stuckler and Sarah Steele

Bereavement among young men in prison

Nina Vaswani describes some of the findings from her research

By Nina Vaswani

Inside Darknet: the takedown of Silk Road

Marie-Helen Maras reports on the unexplored underworld of cyberspace

By Marie-Helen Maras

Why criminal justice scholars should study twenty-first century corporate security

Kevin Walby and Randy K Lippert explain the growth of corporate security and argue that there is a troubling lack of accountability

By Kevin Walby and Randy K Lippert

Nurture Development, ABCD and criminal justice

Rebecca Daddow is optimistic that changes can be affected through community building

By Rebecca Daddow

Advice for an incoming government

David Faulkner offers recommendations based on his personal experiences

By David Faulkner