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Your perfect summer read might be a paperback romance or crime book, a fat biography, or that classic you always meant to read. Our avid readers picked a wide range of books.
People who get an education while serving time are less likely to return to prison and more likely to enter the job market, an analysis finds.
Experts still disagree about why the US prison population has grown so much over the last few decades. But crime is only one part of the problem.
The study highlights the flimsy boundaries between different forms of violence: torture and extrajudicial punishment, lawful arrest, and an unlawful kidnapping.
For decades, forensic linguists have helped crack cases involving false author attribution, masked voices, false confessions in criminal cases and copyright disputes.
Law enforcement is a blunt tool to achieve social conformity with COVID-safe rule. It’s time to start thinking about other strategies to promote new norms.
Politicians’ knee jerk dismissal of an idea that could help rehabilitate ex-offenders is
unhelpful.
America’s answer to Kafka and Dostoevsky gets real at the Edinburgh International Festival.
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Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
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Tutor in Creative Writing and Literature, University of Glasgow
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Tutor in Creative Writing, University of Glasgow
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Professor of Economics, Tasmanian Behavioural Lab, University of Tasmania
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Professor in Criminology and Justice Studies, RMIT University
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Mills E. Godwin, Jr., Professor of Law, William & Mary Law School
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