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So-called honour-based abuse thrives in secrecy and fear.
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The new series on Stan is most successful through its links to rural crime noir, pulling apart the vulnerability and deception of this small town.
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An improved public transport system and mapping of hotspots by law enforcement agencies would reduce susceptibility to crime in Lagos, Nigeria.
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The very low public trust in the Ghanaian police suggests a crisis of legitimacy.
More than 5,000 Black people have been lynched in the US.
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Student journalists are using spreadsheets and databases to examine one of the darkest chapters in American history.
Leonard Mack was exonerated after 47 years in New York in September 2023.
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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.
A compound in Gambaga Witches Camp in the North East region of Ghana.
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Victims of witchcraft accusations face alienation or exclusion from their communities.
Fulani herdsman at Kachia Grazing Reserve, Kaduna State, Nigeria, in April, 2019.
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Ecowas regulations on pastoralism discourage big investment in livestock and need to be reformed in line with present day realities.
Retailers want police to respond more to shop theft reports.
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Shoplifting in the UK has become brazen, threatening to shop staff, and seemingly without consequence.
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Indigenous knowledge of spiritual protection could help fight crime.
British nurse and now convicted serial killer Lucy Letby being arrested in July 2018.
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These ‘custodial killers’ are often healthcare workers who murder helpless or dependent people in their care.
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While there have been significant improvements in the way complainants in particularly are dealt with in court cases, some old myths and stereotypes persist.
A refugee child in South Africa plays on a road side after attacks on foreigners in 2008.
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The South African print often uses language that portrays foreigners in a bad light, and dehumanises them.
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As humans, we want a rational explanation to help us understand why someone would commit these horrific crimes.
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Our research finds at-risk youth in north Queensland wanted to feel safe and included in the community, but often felt the opposite.
A laptop is one of car thieves’ go-to tools.
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Thieves are trading their pry bars for laptops and wireless devices to steal cars that nowadays rely on remotes and computer networks.
The Crime Severity Index is calculated like a crime rate, but different crimes are given a different weight, or importance, based on their severity.
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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?
The possibility of introducing mandatory prison sentences for prolific shoplifters has been mooted by government ministers.
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Integrated offender management is a better way of dealing with shoplifters than prison.
The government, banks and other financial organisations are now dealing with fraud by using increasingly sophisticated detection methods.
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Fraud was up 25% in the UK in 2021/22.
Sometimes, true love is too good to be true.
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Dating apps have given an ancient profession, confidence scamming, a high-tech boost.