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Domestic homicide of older people in the UK

Domestic homicide of older people in the UK

Hannah Bows is an Assistant Professor in Criminal Law at Durham University and Deputy Director of the Centre for Research into Violence and Abuse (CRiVA). In this articles she discusses the problem of ‘elder abuse’ and domestic homicide of older people in the UK. She...

Researching police responses to coercive control

Researching police responses to coercive control

Written by Dr Kelly Johnson and Dr Charlotte Barlow, Lancaster University Physical violence is now understood to be just one of many methods of domestic abuse, with psychological, emotional, coercive and controlling methods being increasingly acknowledged in academia,...

Counting crime, rethinking conventional measures

Counting crime, rethinking conventional measures

Written by Mark Bangs, Deputy Head of Crime Statistics, Office for National Statistics Official statistics on crime in England and Wales have been collated and published for over 100 years. Many aspects of these statistics have changed over this time, to adapt to the...