Leonard Mack spent years in a US jail for a crime he didn’t commit. Here’s how identification procedures can, and have, led to wrongful convictions, and what can be done to prevent it.
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Victims of witchcraft accusations face alienation or exclusion from their communities.
Ecowas regulations on pastoralism discourage big investment in livestock and need to be reformed in line with present day realities.
Shoplifting in the UK has become brazen, threatening to shop staff, and seemingly without consequence.
Indigenous knowledge of spiritual protection could help fight crime.
These ‘custodial killers’ are often healthcare workers who murder helpless or dependent people in their care.
While there have been significant improvements in the way complainants in particularly are dealt with in court cases, some old myths and stereotypes persist.
The South African print often uses language that portrays foreigners in a bad light, and dehumanises them.
As humans, we want a rational explanation to help us understand why someone would commit these horrific crimes.
Our research finds at-risk youth in north Queensland wanted to feel safe and included in the community, but often felt the opposite.
Thieves are trading their pry bars for laptops and wireless devices to steal cars that nowadays rely on remotes and computer networks.
Recent data from Statistics Canada shows crime rates in Canada rising. Crime has become a hot-button political issue in Canadian cities. But what does the data actually mean?
Integrated offender management is a better way of dealing with shoplifters than prison.
Fraud was up 25% in the UK in 2021/22.
Dating apps have given an ancient profession, confidence scamming, a high-tech boost.
Fatal stabbings are the leading cause of homicide in countries with restricted access to firearms, including Australia. New research could help solve these cases.
Research on developing brains has helped bring about a sea change in attitudes toward juvenile life without parole. But many people who committed crimes as minors are still serving such sentences.
Ghana is a signatory to several international conventions that oblige it to guarantee the right to life.
The short answer: It’s complicated – and depends, in part, where you live.
The scandal and its aftermath point to a systemic failure of police accountability. Such failure is fertile soil for police corruption and makes a repeat of the scandal entirely possible.
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Associate Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Bond University
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Professor (Practice), Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University
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Dean, School of Law, Deakin University
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Associate Professor of Domestic and Family Violence, Queensland Centre for Domestic and Family Violence Research, CQUniversity Australia
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Principal Research Fellow, Griffith University
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Professor of Sociology of Law and Deviance, Università di Bologna; University of Essex; The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Comparative Organised Crime and Corruption, University of Bath
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Associate Professor in Criminology, Deakin University
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Professor of Law, Auckland University of Technology
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Associate professor in Criminology, University of New England
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William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
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Professor of Criminal Justice, Metropolitan State University
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CEO, Sentencing Advisory Council
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Professor of Crime Science, University of Leeds
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Emeritus Professor in Law and Criminal Justice, Adelaide University