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Making Sense of Crime Trends

By Richard Garside | Published: March 15, 2013

Much of the current confusion about crime trends is born of the tendency to bunch together a whole range of different harms and actions under the abstract category of 'crime'. This blinds us to where the significant problems are.

The Politics of Dissent

By Daniel Nehring | Published: June 14, 2012

Recently, The Independent published a brief piece on the ‘slave-like’ working conditions of PhD students at UK universities. This sounds dramatic, but it’s hardly news – the problem has been around for years. The question arises why dissent did not emerge earlier and more forcefully.

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