Articles

Four Types of Crimes Part1 Crime is a punishable act by the state. It is a concept; in reality, crime does not exist; it is created by the state and punished. Crime is divided into four categories. Personal Crime Property […]

Crime: Definition Part1 Popular media, newspapers and television news programmes oftenfocus on recurring fears of escalating levels of insecurity, violence,knife crime, internet fraud, children out of control, new forms ofterrorism, sex offending, domestic violence and a growth in all mannerof […]

Criminal Mind Part1 Viewers of the recent trial of South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh for a double homicide heard the defendant declare that he would never hurt his wife or son. In fact, these were his final words to the […]

Media and Mental Health Part1 In most modern media, whether fictional or news, the focus on portrayal and representation of crime is considerable and usually unquestioned. Crimes which dominate are murder and interpersonal violence with styles of depiction, description or […]

Mad House Part1 The term ‘mental health’ was not commonly used until the 1900s; until then, ‘mad’, ‘lunacy’ and ‘insanity’ were the accepted terms. Throughout this chapter the term ‘mental illness’ will also be used, since it was common in […]

Therapy in Forensic Settings Part1 The question of whether a person is ‘mad’ or ‘bad’ is not a new one and has concerned thinkers, policymakers, judges and doctors throughout history. However, changes in mental health and the prison service since […]

Social Harm You will explore two unique qualities of the state-crime approach(Green and Ward, 2000; 2004; 2019) which distinguish it from socialharm. The first is the centrality of civil society (rather than law andcriminal justice processes) in defining, exposing and […]

Control the Borders Part1 The refugee crisis discourse has been widely used since 2015 todescribe the increased numbers of people, particularly from the MiddleEast, South East Asia, and various African states, forcibly displaced toEurope through Lesvos. The case study of […]

Do Judges Make Law? Part1 Presently a judge’s role is not to make law but to uphold the laws which are made by the parliament. Each law which is made by the parliament must be clearly defined and applied by […]