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Lifelong anonymity orders are a rare and exceptional interference with freedom of expression.
Stop and search and other police tactics cannot address the complicated social problems that are linked to knife crime.
The relationship between street slang used by young people and secret codes deployed by gang members is not always straightforward.
Cyntoia Brown has been granted clemency for killing a man when she was a teenager and forced into the sex trade. The case showed why the justice system must stop punishing women for defending themselves.
Why is the age of criminal responsibility in the UK the lowest in the European Union?
If the UK is to break the cycle of reoffending, it needs to meet the basic needs of young people in prison and respect the basic human right of adequate nutrition.
There are no easy answers when it comes to tackling knife crime but young people must be at the centre of any possible solution.
Politicians like to appear tough on crime in election years. But Victoria’s move to require youth offenders to wear electronic monitoring devices may not have a real impact.
Efforts to regulate social media and censor drill music are wasted. Instead, teachers and police need to give young people opportunities to grow.
Violence in UK schools is at record levels, but expelling pupils isn’t always the answer.
The police in schools model abolished in Victoria in 2006 represents an outdated, paternalistic approach to youth crime and would not likely reduce youth crime rates if we brought it back now.
Tough-on-crime models of policing students don’t reduce youth crime, but community engagement programs for at-risk youth can be beneficial.
Tim Nicholls said the introduction of a youth curfew in the WA suburb of Northbridge ‘saw a dramatic drop in crime and a reduction in the anti-social behaviour of young people’. Is that right?
It’s too easy to blame gang culture.
Jeff Sessions was met with considerable skepticism when he announced his desire to revive D.A.R.E. But it turns out that the current program is nothing like the ineffective D.A.R.E. of the ‘80’s and '90’s.
The murder of 11-year-old Rhys Jones in Liverpool in 2007 sparked a national debate on armed gangs – but what has changed 10 years on?
In the age of social media and online self-promotion, being the subject of a moral panic can not only be a source of pride, but also an inducement to offend.
Two teenagers have been sentenced to life for a double murder. But their crime is extremely rare.
Children in care are criminalised too early – and don’t receive the support they need.
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Edge Hill University
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Associate Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Bond University
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Senior Lecturer, Criminology, Swinburne University of Technology
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Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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Professor of Cognitive Psychology, School of Education, La Trobe University
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