Increasing the prison population will put England and Wales out of step with their neighbours.
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Indecent exposure happens digitally, too.
The government’s violence against women strategy fails to adequately address the reasons for women’s lack of safety.
The prestige the role of detective once had has been eroded and needs to be restored.
The fundamental change in how we are living will see criminals adapt and new targets emerging.
Faced with cutbacks to youth services and limited opportunities, risk-taking behaviour can, for some, become highly alluring.
New analysis reveals the most common types of anti-social behaviour, and who the victims are.
The police held to account those responsible for nearly 300,000 fewer offences between 2014 and 2018.
Teenagers become indentured to drug dealers after owing them money for weed, creating a hierarchy of exploitation with the user at the bottom.
Drug users aren’t the problem – the current ‘war on drugs’ is.
Street lighting may not actually reduce crime – but it can make people feel safer at night.
Dangerous, vulnerable or just plain stupid – these are some of the stereotypes which young people face when they come in contact with the law.
It’s still rare for cases of coercive control to reach prosecution.
When England play a match, there’s a 26% increase in reports of domestic abuse. When they lose, reports go up 38%.
There are no easy answers when it comes to tackling knife crime but young people must be at the centre of any possible solution.
The fault lines between highly segregated neighbourhoods have been linked to higher crime rates and mental health issues.
Efforts to regulate social media and censor drill music are wasted. Instead, teachers and police need to give young people opportunities to grow.
The law around ‘sexting’ needs to be overhauled as the way young people communicate changes and evolves.
Stabbing deaths among young people are at an eight-year high – and the government is not doing anything effective to solve it.
More cats and dogs are being stolen than ever before – here’s what you need to know.
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Principal Research Associate, Department of Security and Crime Science, UCL
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Founder & CEO, Black Box Research and Consultancy
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Professor of Crime Science, University of Leeds
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Professor of Data Analytics, Bangor University
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Professor In Criminology, University of Staffordshire
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Programme Leader and Senior Lecturer in Childhood & Youth Studies, The Open University
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Animal Geographer, Keele University
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Honorary Fellow, Department of Health Sciences, University of York
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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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Lecturer in Criminal Justice and Criminology, University of Kent
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Assistant Professor, Durham University
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Lecturer in Criminology, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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PhD student in Socio-Legal Studies, Leiden University
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Chair of the Policing Institute for the Eastern Region, Anglia Ruskin University
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Visiting Professor of Criminology, Kent Crime and Justice Centre, University of Kent