Course: From Crime to Punishment: an Introduction to Criminal Justice

The rules of policing only tell part of the story of how police work though. PACE is a set of rules, but the issues which it was intended to address …

The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (also referred to as PACE) is the key Act of Parliament which deals with the relationship between the police and suspects. It is …

In this video I discuss some background issues relating to policing: (i) Why do we have police and what justifies their existence? (In this context notice the importance of our …

We left Joe on the point of being arrested in town. In this animation we’re going to follow Joe, after his arrest, into the police station to learn about some …

We hope you’ve enjoyed the first week of the course! Hopefully you’ve had the chance to develop a sense of some of the definitional issues around the idea of crime. …

Now that we have spent some time thinking about what ‘crime’ is, we are going to turn our attention to tracking an allegation of criminal behaviour through the criminal justice …

We know that the statistics derived from crimes recorded by the police can only ever present a partial picture of the crime which actually takes place. A crime needs to …

You might have noticed in the earlier video, and in the Guardian article to which you were referred in the previous step, mentions of the Crime Survey of England and …

How much crime is there? Who is committing it? Who are the victims? These are obviously big questions for politicians, law-makers, police, and the public. These questions are often followed …

In this video, Ailbhe O’Loughlin discusses different ways in which we try to work out how much crime there is. Notice how there are issues with all the methods that …

Have you looked at the news today? How much of it was ‘about’ crime? Perhaps when you looked at the news there were reports of allegations of crimes which have …

We are going to think about how ‘crime’ is represented in culture and the media, with particular reference to the question of whether those representations of crime correspond to some …

The rationales which Aibhe worked through in the last video can help us to understand more fully whether we think we should criminalise behaviour. You’ll have noted from what Ailbhe …

In this video Ailbhe O’Loughlin, a lecturer in York Law School, talks about the issue of criminalisation. She considers whether there are other ways of making people do the right …

In their book, The Problem of Crime (2001), Muncie and McLaughlin suggest a number of possible approaches to understanding what ‘crime’ might be. We reflect on some of them here. …