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The Old Bailey in London. Photo: Art De Cade via Flikr under a CC license

Brits still associate working-class accents with criminal behaviour – study warns of bias in the criminal justice system

17 Jan 2025
People who speak with accents perceived as ‘working-class’ including those from Liverpool, Newcastle, Bradford and London risk being stereotyped as...
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'Threatening' faces and beefy bodies do not bias criminal suspect identification, study finds

20 Apr 2022
Research shows that there is no bias toward selecting people with muscular bodies or facial characteristics perceived as threatening when identifying...
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Autistic defendants are being failed by the criminal justice system

15 Mar 2022
The criminal justice system (CJS) is failing autistic people, argue researchers at the Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge, after a survey...
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‘I bottle it up’: the emotions of solitary confinement

01 Apr 2019
New research will set out to examine the emotional world of solitary confinement. Dr Ben Laws from the Institute of Criminology discusses his project...
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A City of London police officer armed with a Taser

Carrying Tasers increases police use of force, study finds

20 Dec 2018
Cambridge experiment with City of London police found that, while rarely deployed, just the presence of electroshock devices led to greater overall...
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A room in a young offenders institute

History shows abuse of children in custody will remain an ‘inherent risk’ – report

18 Oct 2018
New research conducted for the current independent inquiry suggests that – despite recent policy improvements – cultures of child abuse are liable to...
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