The government’s laws cancelling social security payments for some accused of crimes turn a safety net into a weapon for punishing people.
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State governments across the country have brought in harsher laws to deal with youth crime in recent years. But do the stats justify the punitive measures?
Factors contributing to school violence are found in the family, the community and the school.
Fraud now accounts for most UK crime, yet government efforts remain fragmented and weak after decades of neglect.
Our brains work by putting things in mental categories, but this can be turned against us.
Political trust and support for the rule of law are important for sustaining stability in democracies.
Young men in low-income communities in Cape Town and London often walk with great fear.
A mass train stabbing in the UK has spurred a vigorous debate about releasing the racial and nationality details of suspects of crimes.
Sussan Ley recently declared Melbourne the ‘crime capital of Australia’. But a closer analysis of the data shows a much more nuanced picture.
Longtime mob reporter George Anastasia explains how intensive electronic eavesdropping revealed dialogue that surpassed Hollywood scripts.
The fines of $250 for a first offense and $500 for a second hit low-income families the hardest.
South Australian landlords who turn a blind eye on illegal tobacco can now be fined, while Queensland is proposing bigger fines and even a year in jail.
Both the prosecutors and Patterson herself are continuing legal action, but for very different reasons. They could extend the case, or come to nothing at all.
In 2024, seven times more Americans were struck by lightning than were convicted of federal mortgage fraud.
Tougher knife laws make people feel safer but don’t address the real reasons knives are carried in the first place.
President Trump wants to punish states and cities that eliminate bail money, but releasing defendants pretrial without having to post bail doesn’t lead to higher crime rates, data shows.
Erin Patterson, who received a life sentence for murdering three people, is one of just a handful of female killers. The evidence can help tell us why.
One of the most high-profile court cases in Australian history has ended in the maximum sentence. Two legal experts explain the process.
If legislation passes, the register would be the first public one in Australia, but evidence shows they do little do protect people.
Research shows that rural women in the US are more likely to be killed by their current or former male partners compared to their urban and suburban counterparts.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Bond University
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Professor (Practice), Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University
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Dean, School of Law, Deakin 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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Principal Research Fellow, Griffith University
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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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Professor of Comparative Organised Crime and Corruption, University of Bath
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Associate Professor in Criminology, Deakin University
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Professor of Law, Auckland University of Technology
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Associate professor in Criminology, University of New England
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William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
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Professor of Criminal Justice, Metropolitan State University
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CEO, Sentencing Advisory Council
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Professor of Crime Science, University of Leeds
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Emeritus Professor in Law and Criminal Justice, Adelaide University