Blog

In today's article, Vickie Cooper argues that ‘Out of Area’ policy practice can be considered a form of banishment. Vickie Cooper is a senior lecturer in Criminology at The Open University.

In this week's blog, Lee John Curley highlights the key differences within the Anglo-American justice model and other international justice models. Lee John Curley is a lecturer in Psychology at The Open University.

Mike Nellis responds to last week's post by Sarah Lamble, and sets out some issues on transgender prisoner policy debates. Mike Nellis is Emeritus Professor of Criminal and Community Justice in The Centre for Law, Crime and Justice at the University of Strathclyde.

In this article, Sarah Lamble sets out some of the issues in policy debates on trans prisoners. Sarah Lamble is a Reader in Criminology & Queer Theory at Birkbeck, University of London.

In this week's post, Joe Sim and Steve Tombs explore the upcoming no-deal Brexit's connections to the government's expositions on law and order.

In this video, Dr Jovan Byford from the School of Psychology and Counselling introduces his research on conspiracy theories.

In this film, Dr Jim Turner, Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychology, looks at ‘the CSI effect’ and explains why forensic science doesn’t always provide the answers.

In this month's article, Zoe Walkington, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, and Graham Pike, Professor of Forensic Cognition, both at the Open University, discuss the police and their use of social media, specifically Facebook.

In this post, David Scott, an Open University academic, and Sian Hamlett, the founder of Hamlett Films, discuss the creation of Grenfell Tower and Social Murder.

In this week's blog, Gemma Briggs discusses whether the public should report dangerous driving by celebrities.