Police are still reeling from a decade of austerity funding cuts.
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Is the cost of living really driving regular people to crime? And are those security tags on your steak the result of their misdemeanours?
An expert explains the relationship between the home office and the police.
A legal expert explains the complicated process of prosecuting speech hate crimes.
An expert explains how militarisation is changing policing and eroding public trust.
Institutional misogyny affects women and girls every day, not just in cases of horrific violence.
Integrated offender management is a better way of dealing with shoplifters than prison.
Crimestoppers was originally founded in 1988 and now receives more than half a million reports each year.
The Stephen Lawrence inquiry and subsequent Macpherson Report led to changes in how police deal with the family of murder victims.
Scottish police leaders have insisted the force is distinct from policing elsewhere in the UK.
London police has a high percentage of firearms officers, a source of toxic, macho culture.
Police thinking of themselves as warriors can lead to distrust and aggression towards minority groups.
CCTV is a popular form of digital evidence but it can be unreliable and problematic.
From Happy Valley to social media, women police officers face rampant sexist abuse.
London’s police force has a deeply ingrained culture that can’t be fixed by one commissioner.
In England and Wales perpetrators of one of the gravest violent crimes, which carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment, are very unlikely to receive any punishment at all
Eight journalists covering a protest on the M25 motorway were recently detained by police.
Police may not have been justified in making arrests over breach of the peace and public order.
Top contributors
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Senior Lecturer in Police Studies, University of Portsmouth
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Associate Professor in Law and Criminal Justice, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Criminology, University of South Wales
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Professor of UK Human Rights Law, University of East Anglia
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Research Fellow, University of South Wales
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Lecturer in Criminal Justice and Social Policy, School for Business and Society, University of York
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DPhil Candidate in Criminology, University of Oxford
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Lecturer in Criminology, Swansea University
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Lecturer in Criminal Justice, University of Leeds
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Lecturer in Law, Cardiff University
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Professor emerita, Institute of Local Government Studies, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Public Policy, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology, University of Sussex
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Professor of Crime Science, University of Leeds
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, The University of Edinburgh
