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Nic Groombridge: Too m...

Nic Groombridge: Too many moral panics not enough folk devils. Was Stan Cohen wrong about his own work?

This is a short blog post, not a doctoral thesis.  I cannot come close to doing justice to the extensive primary and secondary literature on moral panics.  So apologies if I missed the very article...

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Mike Guilfoyle: No get...

Mike Guilfoyle: No getting away with it

Jock Young has offered many telling insights into crime, power and class structure and recently wrote a fascinating profile of the rise and fall of financier Bernie Madoff (in How they got away wit...

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Nic Groombridge: Democ...

Nic Groombridge: Democracy in action

Democracy in action: Public Criminologist versus Publicity Commissioner, or vice versa?

On Monday night, 15 April 2013, I attended a lecture at the University of Hertfordshire given by David Lloyd...

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Zarin: 20 years in pri...

Zarin: 20 years in prison Part 8

These were exciting times for me and I took every chance to move on. My Open University studies were the most important thing to me now with regard to my overall rehabilitation to date. Prison indu...

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Richard W Hardwick: Th...

Richard W Hardwick: The importance of prisoners' writing

It takes more than 20 minutes for them all to wander in. There are only ten of them but they come from different wings, and some of them like to wander slowly when they're outside because they get ...

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