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Legislation designed to bring large business to book should be deployed to bring accountability to the cell block.
Research shows the vastly different ways the two newspapers approach this important issue.
Two teenagers have been sentenced to life for a double murder. But their crime is extremely rare.
On screen violence against women is increasingly detailed, intimate and frighteningly authentic – but there’s often just no need.
Cases of homicide by falling are rare. But the Gable Tostee case is not the first instance of a fall from a building causing death being linked to criminal conduct.
Victorians revelled in images and descriptions of murder and mutilation which would today be regarded as shocking.
Killer Christopher Halliwell almost escaped trial after a police officer bent the rules to find one of his victims.
During the 1980s, press coverage of South African family murders suggested that something was ‘wrong’ with white society – and with the white Afrikaans men who were usually seen as perpetrators.
Under South African law, murder carries a minimum sentence of 15 years for first-time offenders. But courts may deviate from this if they find ‘substantial and compelling circumstances’ to do so.
Paralympian Oscar Pistorius was sentenced to six years in prison for killing his girlfriend. It comes after a well-publicised TV interview which some believe was used to influence the judge.
The increase in rioting ahead of municipal elections in South Africa, such as that in Pretoria, suggests that the country’s general election in 2019 could be more violent than previous elections.
Women over 60 are being killed in their own homes - but little more is known about these crimes.
When Gay Talese signed a confidentiality agreement with a motel-owning voyeur, he got access to the voyeur’s journals and secret viewing perch. But he also allowed the spying to continue for over a decade.
A new study reveals that we are more likely to trust people who follow simple moral rules – or at least give moral problems some serious thought.
The genre that brought us the writings of Mark “Chopper” Read isn’t known for its impeccable gender politics. But two new books cast a critical eye on a culture of male violence.
How do rational people get sucked into believing conspiracies? According to research, we’re more susceptible than you’d think.
Her case followed certain well known patterns, but the Surrey teenager’s killer was not identified for years after her death.
Innocent people do confess under interrogation to crimes they did not commit, even providing details about the crime. What leads them to falsely confess to very serious crimes?
Yorkshire Ripper may be moved from Broadmoor Hospital to a regular prison. Does that mean he’s well?
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Associate Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Bond University
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Criminologist / Senior Lecturer, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of History, The Open 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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