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I've recently taken up the position of Discipline Lead for Sociology at the Higher Education Academy. The HEA supports a large network of learning and teaching practitioners involved in sociology and criminology throughout the UK. It was the HEA that provided the funding for the British Society of Criminology Learning and Teaching Network and for some future funded projects. I’ll be providing funding,…

Arizona’s legislature recently passed a law charging prison visitors a onetime $25 fee as a way to help close the state’s $1.6 billion budget deficit. Middle Ground Prison Reform, a prison advocacy group, challenged the law in court as a discriminatory tax, but a county judge upheld its constitutionality.

Fees like that, slapped on prisoners and their families, couldn’t be more…

PRESS RELEASE

Criminologists Society of J&K in collaboration with J&K Police organized a one day seminar on two important subjects,

1. Road Accidents and Human Factor, the ways to tackle the problem in J&K

2. The role of information technology in combating crime-A Reappraisal of our present functioning.

This seminar was a part of programmes under  Project Safe J&K, being executed by both these organizations. Sh. Qamar Ali Akhoon,…

PRESS RELEASE

Criminologists Society of J&K in collaboration with J&K Police organized a one day seminar on two important subjects,

1. Road Accidents and Human Factor, the ways to tackle the problem in J&K

2. The role of information technology in combating crime-A Reappraisal of our present functioning.

This seminar was a part of programmes under  Project Safe J&K, being executed by both these organizations. Sh. Qamar Ali Akhoon,…

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Welcome to my blog! This is a forum where relevant issues in Criminology and Security Studies will be frequently discussed. All students, researchers and those who wish to read for pleasure and for the purpose of enhancing their knowledge are embraced with open-arms.

In this first edition, I will be discussing briefly on "Security" since the essence of Criminal justice System is to provide…

can this be linked or  is it an assumption to believe that psychosocial theory  can adequetly explain crimes committed by those displaying traits of  personality disorder.

Dear Sir,

Each and every person on this globe gets affected by different sorts of criminal acts ranging from Environmental offences to corruption to white collar crimes to murders to rapes, road accidents to industrial accidents, cyber crimes to human trafficking, religious violence to class conflicts ,drugs smuggling to animal parts smuggling and dozens of other crimes. More than 9 million people remain in different jails all across the world every year and hundreds of millions are…

A recent article in Behavior Modification brought forth the issue of coping style and how it can be utlized to aid recovery/rehabilitation for both victims and offenders. While the study itself tested the positive/negative affects of coping style via pain management it does not take a leap of imagination to see how these findings (which are not new) can be applied to psychotheraputic means.The core principle being that of perception, the study did find that acceptance was the…

It was like a giant switchboard, the kind you see in 30s and 40s movies, a bevy of operators plugging in a crisscross of wires, taking calls, making connections, a cacophony of chatter.

That image came to me recently as I walked into the lobby of the MassMutual Center in Springfield, MA. The only difference was that the conversations filling the hall were about the same thing: girls and young women in the juvenile justice system.

We were there—teachers, social workers, lawyers,…

How volatile fears of crime can be, determined by problem-owners of law enforcement and politics. Before the Before the credit crisis, 2008, financially one of the big threats was supposed to stem from crime-money and money laundering. This resulted in a global anti-laundering regime. Then we got the crisis, already lasting three years. The supposed amount of crime-money, (gu)estimated at more than 1000 billion pales into insignificance against the multi trillions to rescue the Euro. The…

A brilliant prison psychologist told me the following story. In the Central Prison of Budapest there is a so called drug prevention unit which operates like a drug free unit: inmates here have drug user past, they agree that they wont use any drugs within the prison and therefore they can enjoy some privileges like home leaves more frequently or a more friendly environment where the can listen to music or they are allowed to play psp.

Smoking is not permitted in the common areas of…

One of the most dangerous Hungarian  inmate recently made a picture with a rose and other flowers for the prison psychologist after an ugly and harsh quarrel between them. The psychologist a young lady, the inmate is a young Romani guy who killed someone also within the prison overdosed from benzos.

Other prison psychologist told me that he had a client in the female prison Kalocsa. The inmate was also a murderer, she killed a patient in a mental institution in her netbed setting her…

There’s been some good news in the media lately for anyone who cares about kids and justice. Federal statistics show that the number of juvenile offenders in jail has dropped by at least 25%. Along those same lines, the New York Times recently reported that New York Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman has called for moving most juvenile cases from criminal court to family…

Impunity is to beat up an inmate in a prison being a prison officer in an unacceptable, unjust and illegal way, and getting no criminal procedure at all, in contrary, you will be celebrated among staff members that you are brave and you defended the honor of the community. Your self respect is even higher and you can climb froward in prison hierarchy. You repeat the beating again and again, and after a while you will get respect also among the inmates. And you say that you do not feel any…

Prison suicide is hard to witness also for the staff. I spoke to prison officers who opened up a prison cell in which two prisoners attempted to commit suicide after killing a third. The motive was that the third prisoner was a pedophile. The nurse saved the life of the other two. They were overdosed with benzodiazepines. A staff member said that the cell was full of smelling and steaming blood. It was new years eve. The guy said that he could not forget the smell of the blood which was all…

I spoke to a prison psychologist. She works at the service at least since 25 years. She has to make interviews also with staff members. She has to decide whether staff members are fit for the prison service mentally. Inmates are sitting in her office on a chair. She said some prisoners smell bad because of lacking basic hygiene.

One staff member was summoned to her office to undergo an inspection on the service fitness. He sat on the same chair. He said: "This chair smells you have to…

Commemorative packs and Starbucks' loyalty cards coming soon?

In-tents protesting

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/25/uk-riot-born-in-deprivation