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From crime to social harm The concept of ‘crime’ is most frequently conceived as a legal construction (Lacey, 2002). Among the difficulties with such a construction is its historical, geographic, and state-defined contingence. That is, what is defined as a […]

Police & Their Role Other people with police powers Some people who do not work in police forces may have certain police powers depending on arrangements in local forces. Section 40, Police Reform Act 2002 allows chief officers to establish […]

Deaths in a Police Custody When a person dies in state custody, the police, or another investigative agency, will gather evidence to understand what happened. If the investigative team find evidence which suggests that a crime may have been committed […]

Christopher Alder The family of Christopher Alder, who died in custody a Hull police station 14 years ago, are marking his death. Last year his body was discovered in a mortuary and it emerged 77 year old Nigerian woman Grace […]

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Freedom or Expression Let’s first suppose that we are not free – that there is no such thing as free will. Let’s further take that to imply that there is no sense in which we may be held responsible for […]

What is terrorism? The response to the 9/11 attacks seems in many ways to be unproblematic. It almost seems common sense that the attacks should be seen as terrorism and that it was appropriate to declare war on an enemy […]

Corporation Prisons More than 11 million individuals are imprisoned worldwide. People who pass through prisons often have poor health profiles, including high frequencies of self-harm. Self-harm is a leading cause of morbidity in prisoners; the annual prevalence of self-harm in […]

Corporations, prisons and global perspectives The concept of ‘the prison industrial complex’ suggests the significance of the relationship between transnational corporations which sell their services (such as running prisons) to several states. The operation of prisons in the pursuit of […]