Natural Sciences - Forensic Science

Writing for The Conversation, Professor Robert Hazell (UCL Political Science) outlines why the legal case against Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is so unusual and complex, and how it could take several years to reach the courtroom.

Children are being pulled into the youth justice system because their early health, education and care needs are not being addressed, according to a new Child of the North report. The authors call for urgent action as new analysis shows both the number of children in the justice system and reoffending rates are rising together for the first time in a decade.

Young entrepreneurs are lobbying the Government on how to tackle spiking incidents. University of Leeds graduates Elysia O'Neill and Della Claydon set up The Safe Place Project after experiencing incidents in bars themselves and are campaigning for spiking to be made a standalone criminal offence.

Schoolchildren were sworn in as 'junior detectives' on the University of Leeds campus as part of a knife reduction campaign.

Writing for The Conversation, Dr Francesca Lessa (UCL Institute of the Americas) explores the lasting effects of Operation Condor, and its legacy of torture, murder and kidnappings. Dr Lessa calls for further research and exposure on the magnitude of the injustices.

Dr Thiago R. Oliveira , Lecturer in Policing at the Department of Criminology of The University of Manchester, has been awarded the Early Career Prize of the European Society of Criminology (ESC) Policing Working Group.