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How accountable is Britain?
In 2013 the Centre held a joint conference with the University of Liverpool entitled 'How Corrupt is Britain?'. The event focused on corruption in policing, government and public institutions, and...
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Criminal Justice Matters issue 98 is out now!
The latest issue of our magazine, Criminal Justice Matters is out now. Edited by Dr David Whyte of Liverpool University, this edition has a special focus on 'How violent is Britain?'.
We...
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Bereavement among young men in prison
Nina Vaswani describes the findings from her research. Bereavement is an inevitable part of life and learning how to cope with loss is therefore an important life skill for young people and adults alike. Worden's (1983) theory of bereavement processing, outlines four tasks that must be accomplished...
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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 The meaning of violence, if we distil it to its purest form, is the use of physical force to damage or destroy. In legal systems, the...
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Editorial: How violent is Britain?
David Whyte introduces this issue of cjm The articles in this themed issue of cjm focus on institutional violence. Many of the articles in this section were contributions to the conference organised by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies and the University of Liverpool on 15 May this year: ‘...
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cjm 98: How violent is Britain?
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...
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Is austerity an act of violence?
Identifying violence?
On 10 September the Centre held a roundtable discussion on the extent to which we can understand austerity policies as acts of violence against...
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How the war on terror criminalises ordinary people
It is now accepted that the war on terror has generated an extensive repertoire of its very own terror. Drone strikes resulting...
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Migrants, the NHS and the threat of exclusion
Brace yourself for another round of innuendo and ignorance about immigration as the...
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Behind the wire at Immigration Removal Centres
Late in 2013 Lib Dem MP, Sarah Teather, challenged the government to...
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Police violence at anti-fracking protests
In November 2013 at Barton Moss on the outskirts of Salford, IGas, a company specialising in onshore extraction of oil and gas, began...
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We must do more to protect children in prison
The chief inspector of prisons has identified the single worst prison he has visited – and, scandalously,...