Criminal Justice and Policing

Ragnhild Sollund and Martine Lie discuss the protection of endangered animals offered by conventions such as CITES and the Bern Convention and ask if it's purely symbolic.…Read more

Nicola Roberts, Lauren Doyle and Mark Roberts call on universities to reframe their personal safety advice to students to avoid victim-blaming.…Read more

Daniel Newman, co-author of 'Justice in a Time of Austerity' and 'Experiences of Criminal Justice', explains the recent High Court victory by criminal lawyers over the UK government over legal aid (under)funding. …Read more

Jardar Østbø, co-author of 'Luxury and Corruption', dispels the myth that Putin is the ultimate enemy of the liberal capitalist order and Navalny its hero. Rather they are the two sides of the same neoliberal capitalist coin. …Read more

John Kendall, author of 'Regulating Police Detention', asks why the 23 deaths in policy custody each year in England and Wales, and one suicide per week after detention, don’t attract more concern.…Read more

Transforming Society's most read articles from 2023, brought to you by Bristol University Press and Policy Press.…Read more

Listen to authors and editors talking about the key social challenges of the moment in our top ten Transforming Society podcast episodes from 2023.…Read more

Jack Levin and Julie B. West, authors of 'Covert Violence', consider how covert violence might initially present as an accidental or self-inflicted cause of death. Such cases receive little publicity and are often not properly investigated. …Read more

On Transforming Society, Lisa Wheildon champions UN Women’s 16 Days of Activism to end violence against women and girls. We need to build on the progress in reducing gender-based violence and accelerate change by institutionalising transformation.…Read more

Aaron Pycroft and Clemens Bartollas, authors of 'Redemptive Criminology', discuss their new book, which offers new insights into punishment and retribution. …Read more