The tip of an iceberg: Madeleine McCann and the shameful realities of missing...
by Dr Elizabeth Yardley, Director of the Centre for Applied Criminology at Birmingham City University Ten years ago, three-year-old Madeleine McCann disappeared from a holiday apartment in the...
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Can this beloved 80 year old ever be stopped from killing people?
Head of Psychology at Birmingham City University, Professor Craig Jackson, joins in the celebrations of the 80th Birthday of the Golden Gate Bridge, one of the most iconic and symbolic engineering...
View ArticleTerror in London: We Need to Speak to Young British Muslims and Not Isolate Them
by Dr Imran Awan, Associate Professor in Criminology at Birmingham City University The horrific events on Saturday in London have again put a sharp focus on the Muslim community in Britain. As the...
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Absence of legitimacy + absence of visibility = absence of reality
Mohammed Rahman, lecturer in Criminology at Birmingham City University, offers theoretical and observational thoughts on the recent HMP Birmingham unrest. Prison unrest in England and Wales is nothing...
View ArticleSocial media homicide confessions – stories of killing in digital culture
Criminologist Professor Elizabeth Yardley discusses the relationship between violent crime and social media use, ahead of her new research being published later this month. On Easter Sunday earlier...
View ArticleReligious Conversions Behind Bars
by Shona Robinson-Edwards, PhD Researcher and Assistant Lecturer in Criminology at Birmingham City University News this week reported that extremist and Lee Rigby killer, Michael Adebolajo, has...
View ArticleThe Croydon Cat Ripper and the Great Cat Massacre: A Criminological Analysis
by Dr Adam Lynes, senior lecturer in Criminology at Birmingham City University The ‘Croydon cat ripper’, otherwise known as the ‘M25 cat killer’, is thought to have killed, dismembered and decapitated...
View ArticleKiri: Race, Victimisation and the Criminal Justice System – The Complex Mix
by Shona Robinson-Edwards, PhD researcher and assistant lecturer in Criminology at Birmingham City University January has seen a number of discussions relating to race and racialisation within the...
View ArticleMosallah’s YouTube “Prank” is No Laughing Matter
by Liam Brolan, Lecturer in Criminology at Birmingham City University Have you heard of Arya Mosallah? No? Me neither. Well, at least not until today, when I discovered a news story which brought...
View ArticleJon Venables: 25 years of serious offending that resists rehabilitation
by Craig Jackson, Professor of Psychology at Birmingham City University The case of Jon Venables, convicted for a second time of possessing indecent images of child abuse has again made the news. There...
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