Innocent people do confess to terrible crimes they had nothing to do with. Psychologists are investigating factors that contribute to false confession – including how well-rested a suspect feels.
Police officers in South Africa are four times more likely to kill themselves than be murdered.
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While the unacceptably high rate of police murders in South Africa attracts much media coverage, the bigger problem of suicide among police receives little focus.
No high-fives: Scotland’s new top cop taking his oath.
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Police are important, but not sufficient, in the crime-reduction effort. I have enormous faith in their abilities, but that doesn’t necessarily mean we need more of them.
Nothing gets past PC Puppet. Well, not many things.
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Kevin Morrell, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
After years of cuts, some communities are hiring their own bobbies. That has serious implications for everyone else.
Texas Councilman Jonathan Miller is seen in a still image taken from the body camera of a police officer on October 8 2015.
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After two more fatal shootings by police of black men this week, we republish one legal scholar’s argument that what needs addressing is the police’s culture of masculinity.
In order to cope with the rigours of policing, police are expected to be strong, resilient and unemotional in dangerous situations.
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Sexual harassment is a persistent and damaging problem in many Australian workplaces. But why does it appear to be an entrenched feature of some organisational settings more than others?
The way a country regards its female police officers is crucial in efforts to protect women against violence.
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Part one of the ABC’s Hitting Home provides an insight into the work of those responding to domestic violence on the front line – including police, courts, refuges, and a specialist forensic unit.
Are textbooks having an impact on the framing of race issues?
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Preventing crime before it happens, while saving resources, sounds like a great use of big data. But these calculated probabilities raise big questions about civil liberties.
Modern video technology can make matters public, but accountability still depends on political processes to produce just outcomes.
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Mobile video technology means outrageous behaviour and abuses can rapidly become public knowledge, but achieving just outcomes still depends on a political willingness to act on such knowledge.
It is a rarely discussed fact that some police officers commit domestic violence.
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