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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.

Writing in The Conversation, Dr Irini Mavrou (UCL Institute of Education) explains how bilinguals tend to make different decisions depending on which language they use - impacting their responses to emotional decisions, rational arguments and moral dilemmas.

Writing in The Conversation, Professor Richard Wortley (UCL Security & Crime Science), explores his research into what happens when drinking precedes killing.

The government cannot achieve its target to halve violence against women and girls if it doesn't address the most serious perpetrators - and it isn't anywhere near knowing how to identify them.

Following former student Zhenhao Zou-s conviction for multiple rapes and other serious offences, we have issued this statement and are providing support for our community.

People who speak with accents perceived as 'working-class' including those from Liverpool, Newcastle, Bradford and London risk being stereotyped as more likely to have committed a crime, and becoming victims of injustice, a new study suggests. Listeners think some accents sound guiltier than others and we should all be concerned about that Alice Paver Research led by the University of Cambridge, in collaboration with Nottingham Trent University, raises serious concerns about bias in the UK criminal justice system due to negative stereotyping of accents.

Content warning* - please note there is distressing content in this press release. Nine fathers were given legal access by private family court law proceedings (PLP) to the children they were accused of sexually abusing, according to a qualitative study. The groundbreaking UKRI funded paper , published in the Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, was carried out by University of Manchester researchers in partnership with members of SHERA Research Group and The Survivor Family Network.

Testing hundreds of confiscated vapes in 38 schools in England reveals 1 in 6 (16.6%) contained spice Testing hundreds of confiscated vapes in 38 schools in England reveals 1 in 6 (16.6%) contained spice.

Housing lone children in Home Office child hotels, as occurred between 2021 and January 2024, increased the risks of trafficking and exploitation, according to a new report by UCL researchers working with ECPAT UK.

Victim-survivors of rape and sexual assault feel perpetrators' rights and interests supersede their own at sentencing, according to new research led by the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (SCCJR).

New research from The University of Manchester has found that children are being swept up in murder and attempted murder cases - and being tried in adult courts - partly due to rap music culture being used as evidence against them. Rap lyrics and videos are regularly used as prosecution evidence in youth violence criminal cases in England and Wales.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has welcomed a report by the University of Warwick into the handling of rape and serious sexual offence (RASSO) cases. An independent academic team led by Professor Vanessa Munro from the University of Warwick evaluated the design and impact of activities piloted under Operation Soteria - the work to overhaul the prosecution and handling of RASSO cases.

Ten years on from the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, Professor Ruth Morgan (UCL Security & Crime Science) and colleagues from Queen's University Belfast & Keele University unpick the main theories of why it hasn't been found.

A project to learn about women's experiences of abuse whilst out running has found that more than two-thirds of them have been abused in some way. The study, by Dr Caroline Miles and Professor Rose Broad from The University of Manchester, found women surveyed in Greater Manchester and Merseyside suffered from threats, verbal abuse, being flashed at, physical and sexual assaults, and having objects thrown at them while out running.

A new tool for police forces to improve rape investigations has been created by University of Glasgow academics as part of the UK Home Office funded Operation Soteria.

Moped and bike enabled crime occurs in all areas of London and unfortunately, 'phone-snatching' is common in Bloomsbury.

A new report led by the University of Glasgow has revealed 244 people have died while detained in custody or under the control of the state in a one-year period in Scotland - an average of four every week.

Thirteen Brazilian mothers who say they are victims of domestic violence have told researchers of their harrowing experiences inside that country's family court system.