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“Transforming Legal Aid?” More like burying our heads in the sand
By Dr Liz Yardley, Deputy Director of the Centre for Applied Criminology Today we see the launch of the consultation entitled ‘Transforming Legal Aid: Delivering a more credible and efficient system’....
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A rising tide of animal cruelty
Dr Angus Nurse – Lecturer in Criminology Latest figures suggest a rise in prosecutions under the Protection of Badgers Act 1992 with 58 people prosecuted in magistrates courts in 2011 compared to 30...
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Should we take notice of the links between animal abuse and domestic violence?
Dr Angus Nurse, Lecturer in Criminology, Birmingham City University Latest figures from the RSPCA show an almost 34 per cent increase in animal cruelty convictions up from 3,114 in 2011 to 4,168 last...
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Fathers who kill their children – a sad reminder of the facts around child...
Dr Liz Yardley By Dr Liz Yardley, Deputy Director of the Centre for Applied Criminology News is breaking today of Julian Stevenson, a 48 year old British man who killed his two children in France....
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More questions than answers in the April Jones case – Mark Bridger and the...
Dr Liz Yardley By Dr Liz Yardley, Deputy Director of the Centre for Applied Criminology Today the jury in the April Jones case returned a guilty verdict upon the defendant, Mark Bridger. This comes...
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“You can give any muppet a gun” – so let’s not make Dale Cregan the latest...
Dr Liz Yardley By Dr Liz Yardley, Deputy Director of the Centre for Applied Criminology Today we saw the conclusion of the trial of Dale Cregan, the 29 year-old Manchester man who admitted to killing...
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Are TV dramas glorifying spree-killings?
Craig Jackson Professor Craig Jackson asks if real spree-killing incidents are often copied by some individuals who are inspired by news coverage, does it not stand to reason that the dramatisation of...
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The denial of child abuse and neglect – my thoughts in the aftermath of the...
Dr Liz Yardley By Dr Liz Yardley, Deputy Director of the Centre for Applied Criminology This week we have seen the trial relating to the death of 4 year-old Daniel Pelka conclude. Daniel’s mother...
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Family Annihilation – A tragic and little understood phenomenon
Dr Elizabeth Yardley, Professor David Wilson and Adam Lynes – Centre for Applied Criminology This month sees the publication of research on family annihilation by the Centre for Applied Criminology in...
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Keanu and Hamzah – What would you do?
Dr Liz Yardley Dr Liz Yardley, Director of the Centre for Applied Criminology This week we have seen the publication of the Serious Case Review (SCR) into the death of Keanu Williams, brutally murdered...
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The virgin spree-killer and beyond: acting under the influence
Professor Craig Jackson Professor Craig Jackson – Head of Psychology It is a fact of journalism that we all know: when a spree-killer shoots or stabs multiple victims and secures a large number of...
View ArticleBring Back Borstal
Would bringing back the methods from Borstal Prison solve the current crisis in UK prisons? Professor David Wilson discusses. In what can only be described as one of the worst inspection reports on a...
View ArticleWho killed EastEnders’ Lucy Beale? Or more importantly, why do we care?
One of the things that gets me out of bed in the morning is my mission to bust the numerous myths and stereotypes around homicide[1]. Whilst crimes like this feature prominently in the broadcast and...
View ArticleFive years on from the Cumbrian mass shooting – what more do we know about...
Professor Craig Jackson reflects on the Cumbrian Shooting tragedy in 2010. He suggests that mass shootings committed by single perpetrators against strangers are still increasing in frequency, but...
View ArticleJordskott – Beyond ‘labs and slabs': What fuels our appetite for serialised...
Dr Elizabeth Yardley, Reader in Criminology at Birmingham City University Last night I watched the first episode of Jordskott on ITV Encore with interest. The 10 part series is the latest incarnation...
View ArticleTen things to do now to improve HM Prison Service
Professor David Wilson – Centre for Applied Criminology at Birmingham City University 1. Allow any members of the public who have been suitably security vetted to visit their local prison each month –...
View ArticleShould Sarah Sands be turned into a poster girl for paedophile hunters?
by Dr Elizabeth Yardley, Director of the Centre of Applied Criminology at Birmingham City University This week a woman was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison for killing a man charged with...
View ArticleHow should we judge who is Britain’s worst murderer?
By Professor David Wilson & Professor Elizabeth Yardley, Centre for Applied Criminology at Birmingham City University As academic experts on murder and serial murder, one of the most common...
View ArticleThe Killing of Becky Watts: Not sexual fantasy but twisted reality
Elizabeth Yardley, Associate Professor of Criminology at Birmingham City University Over the past six weeks, we have heard about the violent death of Bristol teenager Becky Watts. A range of characters...
View ArticleThe co-offending relationship between Shauna Hoare and Nathan Matthews
Dr Charlotte Barlow, lecturer in Criminology at Birmingham City University Notorious male and female co-offenders provide fascinating, yet disturbing images of crime and deviancy, with the likes of...
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