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Could working with dairy cows offer a surprising path to rehabilitation for prisoners?
While AI promises to transform criminal justice by increasing operational efficiency and improving public safety, it also comes with risks around privacy, accountability, fairness and human rights.
Community organizations across the US have launched grassroots operations to inform people with convictions of their voting rights.
Unlike previous miscarriage of justice cases, the calls to review Letby’s conviction are being led by professionals rather than the family, making this an unusual challenge to the legal system.
Expert opinion is necessary as part of the justice system – but nobody is asking if the experts are fit for the task and if their evidence is reliable.
The death of O.J. Simpson rekindled memories of the racial divisions of his domestic violence case involving the murder of his former wife and her friend.
As my research into jurors and jury decision making shows, our system is far from perfect.
A shift towards more punitive responses to youth crime by the next government could reverse the progress New Zealand has made in reducing offending and addressing its root causes.
Trump has not been silenced. The limits on his speech protect fundamental rights − including his right to a fair trial by an unbiased jury and the public’s right to a working justice system.
Among the expert witnesses in our justice system, astronomers play a surprising role. This astronomer provides evidence to several cases per week.
A perp walk is often seen as a walk of shame for accused criminals. But this norm is likely to backfire in the case of Trump.
Fining and jailing Indonesian fishers taking shark fin is a knee-jerk solution. As long as sharks keep vanishing and demand for shark fin soup remains high, illegal fishing will continue.
ACT Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shane Drumgold today announced that the charges against Bruce Lehrmann, the man accused of raping Brittany Higgins at Parliament House in 2019, have been withdrawn…
In New Zealand, you can be considered capable of criminal intent from the age of ten. But this is young by international standards, and many believe reform is overdue.
After recent findings that Aboriginal women detainees are strip searched at higher rates than non-Indigenous women, it’s clear that Australia needs to address racial discrimination in justice systems.
Many states have found ways to remove partisan politics from their court systems.
Video evidence can be powerful at a trial – but it does not always lead to a fair rendering of justice.
Young people often swallow any drugs they have on them when they encounter police, risking overdose to avoid a drug possession charge.
The court prosecutes genocide, torture and grave wartime abuses worldwide. Trump’s executive order imposes on its lawyers and judges the kind of sanctions usually used on foreign terrorists.
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Lecturer in Psychology, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Senior Lecturer, Political Science and International Relations, University of Canterbury
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Woodruff Deem Professor of Law and Distinguished Fellow of Religion, Brigham Young University
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Professor of Criminal Justice, University at Albany, State University of New York
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Glasgow
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Dean, University of Ghana School of Law, University of Ghana
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Associate Professor of Social Work, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law, Georgia State University
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Professor of Criminology, University of Leeds
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Professor in Finance, Charles Sturt University
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Research Fellow, School of Population Health, UNSW
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Professor, Director of Research and Statistical Support Service and Program Leader for Substance Use and Mental Health, Centre for Health Services Research, The University of Queensland