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Webinar video: Last month in criminal justice
Watch the the final episode of 'Last month in criminal justice' before the summer.
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The impenetrable wall of police silence
“It was exactly 10 years ago that I discovered that my partner of six years was actually a policeman. He was a fictional character - his identity was fabricated and he was put into my life to deceive me, by his employer, who knew that one day they would remove him.”
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Policing part 2: Undercover policing
This week's summer reading builds on last week's policing reading list, with articles, videos and research focusing on the undercover policing of political protest.
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Spycops in context: Beneath the undercover policing scandal
Since at least the turn of the nineteenth century, the British state has utilised coercive methods to monitor, constrain and undermine political dissent.
Surveillance, databases,...
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New publications on undercover policing
Over the past year, we have hosted a Research Fellow, Connor Woodman, sponsored by the Barry Amiel & Norman Melburn Trust.
The Centre is today publishing two papers on undercover policing Connor has written as part of this Fellowship, under the title Spycops in context.
From 1968-2008 a dedicated police...
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Spycops in context
In the two Spycops in context papers, Connor Woodman responds to the undercover policing scandal.
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Police spying and political movements
Our Research Fellow, Connor Woodman, has written two articles published in Verso and Jacobin.
For Verso, Connor responds to Alex S Vitale's The End of Policing and asks, 'When, if ever, is it justified for the state to surveil, infiltrate...
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Imran Khan on racism in the Metropolitan Police
Imran Khan, the Lawrence family solicitor, has written an article in response to the BBC's three-part documentary on Stephen Lawrence's murder, 'Stephen: The Murder That Changed a Nation'.
In The Guardian article, Khan questions whether anything has changed within the Metropolitan Police since Stephen Lawrence's murder in 1993 and emphasises how much work is to be done to shape a racially just society and police force.
In 2015, along with Monitoring Group, Imran...
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Latest on the Undercover Policing Inquiry
Following revelations that undercover police officers infiltrated hundreds of political and justice campaigns in the UK, the government launched an Undercover Policing Inquiry in 2015.
Three years later, to cries of ‘no justice, no peace’, dozens of spying victims marched out of the latest Inquiry hearing, denouncing the process and calling for the resignation of presiding judge John Mitting.
Our Research Fellow Connor Woodman explains...
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A brick wall of silence at Undercover Policing Inquiry
On Monday 5 February, 2018, the Undercover Policing Inquiry held another hearing in the Royal Courts of Justice.
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The great undercover policing cover-up
The Undercover Policing Inquiry, now in its third year and unlikely to even begin hearing evidence before late 2019, held two days of...
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Right to protest threatened by wall of silence
Since the exposure of Mark Kennedy as an undercover officer in the climate change movement in 2011, the spotlight should have been on undercover policing and getting to the bottom of its...