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Imprisonment for the traumatised
Recently, I have been writing about trauma as a prelude to imprisonment, and reflecting on what kind of childhood experiences lie in the backgrounds of people sentenced to imprisonment.
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Prisons and the mentally ill: the need to look beyond punitiveness
Tougher criminal justice sanctions are often advocated by politicians who say this reflects public opinion on how to treat criminals, but this is only part of the story.
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New research: link between online hate speech with real-world hate crime
The latest post on the Oxford University Press blog examines the link between online hate speech and hate crime as it happens in the real world.
Researcher and blog post author, Professor Matthew Williams, has been conducting research in this area. His findings suggest that anti-Black and anti-Muslim hate speech online is linked to heightened racial and religious violence and harassment.
The post is a summary of an article by...
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Illicit drug markets and the exploitation and criminalisation of young people
For the past five years, much of my work has focused on the harms associated with prohibitionist drug policies.
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A duty to prevent violence – empowerment or burden?
'Knife offenders will be treated like would-be jihadists under measures announced on Monday by Sajid Javid, the Home Secretary, to crack down on violent crime.'
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The College of Policing on ‘knife crime’: a turn for the better?
The College of Policing has issued a very interesting briefing on knife crime.
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New project - Violence: prevention, public health and social justice
Violence: prevention, public health and social justice - aims to outline a framework for determining how violence reduction for everyone can be effectively achieved. The project is being done in partnership with Unison.
The Centre's Research Director, Roger Grimshaw, will be leading the project.
For more information please visit our project page.
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Ambiguous endings to a supervisory experience
Although it now seems like a distant reflection, I was minded to recall working with Paola (not her real name) whilst reading an impressively moving...
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Centre's director on Talk Radio
Our Director, Richard Garside, was interviewed on Talk Radio yesterday on far-right violence and the underlying causes of violence in society.
On underlying causes of violence, Richard said:
We know that societies that are more unequal in relation to power and money, are generally speaking more violent.
Watch the whole clip...
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This week in media appearances
It's been a busy week for our Director, Richard Garside, who has given his comments on a range of criminal justice issues.
In Tuesday's Guardian, Richard drew light on the geographical clustering of knife violence in an article by Jamie Grierson. ...
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Beneath county lines
County lines refers to the extension of drug supply from urban into rural and other settings.
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Evidence mounts on Glasgow's Violence Reduction Unit
Susan McVie, Ellie Bates and Rebecca Pillinger recently published their research findings on violence reduction in Glasgow and London on the LSE blog.
The findings support our own research, presented in Young people, violence and knives, a briefing we published in November examining knife violence...