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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?'.
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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,...
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Getting away with murder?
Over the past ten years, 519 people have died after contact with the police, either in custody (the great majority) or...