There is currently a growing public debate about the cost of higher education. At a time when the cost of living is widely recognised as a crisis, questions about whether university offers “v…

The Parthenon Marbles, British Museum The question of whether museums remain relevant comes up often in discussions about heritage and old artifacts. Yet the evidence suggests they continue to play…

There are two kinds of criminology conversations I get embroiled in these days!  Those with people who read criminology where we discuss many social/cultural phenomena under a specific lens or thos…

Source Fifty years after Lombroso’s theory of the “born criminal” an American criminologist explored the origins of criminality from a different perspective.  For Edwin Sutherland people weren…

Source This is a two-part blog on embracing some of the criminological theory origin stories in the Western hemisphere.  Is crime the product of bad genes or bad society?  Are we born or …

Source If I was a Roman, I would be sitting in my comfortable triclinium eating sweet grapes and dictating my thoughts to a scribe.  It was the Roman custom of celebrating a double-faced god t…

Steve Lazarides Crime Pays It was years ago that Bob was born in St. Mary’s Hospital.  His mum delivered a relatively healthy baby that she called Robert, after her father despite kicking her …

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If you have an alert on your phone then a new story may come with a bing! the headline news a combination of arid politics and crime stories. Sometimes some spicy celebrity news and maybe why not a…

If you have an alert on your phone then a new story may come with a bing! the headline news a combination of arid politics and crime stories. Sometimes some spicy celebrity news and maybe why not a…

Source In a land-mark event, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has unveiled plans to abolish NHS England, to bring the NHS back into government control. Starmer justifies much of this change with…

Chris Ofili, Harvester 2021 As I prepare for the new academic module “CRI3011 – Global Perspectives of Crime” launching this September, my attention is drawn to the ongoing conflicts in…

Luckily I’ve never been one for romantic movies. I always preferred a horror movie. I just didn’t know that my love life would become the worst horror movie I could ever encounter. I was only…

In 2002, I realised I was bored, I was a full-time wife and parent with a long-standing part-time job in a supermarket. I first started the job at 15, left at 18 to take up a job at the Magistrates…

Source This blog today is all about love…. or maybe not!  As criminologists, we tend to see things slightly different, and our perspective is influenced by functions other than undying declara…

I have recently been on a family holiday with our toddler to Tenerife. We began the journey by getting to an airport in the UK. Whilst there the security checks were done for families alo…

“Look at what members of Congress are invested in private prison companies … and look at the votes on this bill.”…

Only a couple of months ago there was a furore about the current prime minister Sir Keir Starmer receiving gifts from Lord Alli. He wasn’t the only one to benefit but it rather tainted the Labour P…

Penguin Books Recently, I picked up a book on the biography of Marie Colvin, a war correspondent who was assassinated in Syria, 2012. Usually, I refrain from reading biographies, as I consider many…

Source As part of preparing for University, new students were encouraged to engage in a number of different activities. For CRI1009 Imagining Crime, students were invited to contribute a blog on th…

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Platform’s coverage of US election crystallised longstanding concerns about its content, says Guardian

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The actor died peacefully in his sleep aged 90