While accused Bondi gunman Naveed Akram’s case is among the worst of the worst, his severe incarceration has a flow-on effect to non-violent inmates nationally.
Articles on UN Convention Against Torture
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More than three-quarters of the world’s nations engage in torture, which is notoriously difficult to study because it often occurs in secret.
Research finds that the threat of being sentenced to death has no bearing on how people contemplate violent crime.
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Professor of Sociology, Northern Illinois University
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Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director, Death Penalty Project and Visiting Professor of Practice, University of Oxford
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Director of the University of Oxford Death Penalty Research Unit, Centre for Criminology, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
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Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney