An educational resource for students and staff studying the sociology of crime, deviance and social censure, criminology, sociology of law and socio-legal studies; the intriguing stuff that made the subject fascinating in the first place. So much of this has now become political that we also discuss politics.
In this section, we will store short articles, comments or notes. Just click on their titles to access. Some are written specifically for CrimeTalk. Some have been published elsewhere, but their authors or editors have given permission for them to be linked in here. So we are happy to re-publish them here as articles with social sharing buttons and 'add comment' buttons, enabling you to comment on or rate them yourself, or share them with friends and colleagues via Facebook, or tweet about them via Twitter.
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