White Collar Criminals

 Are they treated more leniently?

The Dark figure of Crime

 

Article on the BBC about unrecorded crime. 

Campaigns for Change

 WARNING - if you take notes from this you MUST put it in your own words!

Brendan Dassey's 'confession' - Inadmissability in UK Law

 

 

 Here is a good article detailing some of the key issues with Brendan Dassey's 'confession'  - it focuses on its inadmissability in UK Law.

Double Jeopardy and Stephen Lawrence

 Channel 4 News on Double Jeopardy and how it applies to the Stephen Lawrence case

Michel Foucault, Surveillance and the Panopticon

 

David Butler and the cases against DNA evidence

 Go here for the article.

The Reid Technique for Interviews / Interrogation

 Here's a post on the Reid interview technique which can be useful for us when analysing various interview styles (think: Brendan Dassey)

The Innocence Project

 Link here to the main website of the Innocence Project, including a list of all the case they've been involved with.  Steven Avery is up there, for instance after they helped get him exonerated after 18 years in prison.

London Bridge Terror Attack 2019

 

Not the one we often mention, in terms of the speed of the police, but another one... This one is interesting because the perpetrator was out on licence so we could use this as a criticism of LEFT Realist policies in relation to the rehabilitation of offenders (that's certainly how conservative RIGHT realists might view it, anyway)

Crimewatch Uk and the Media representaion of Crime / Collette Aram

Interesting article here relating to the way in which real-life crime is represented in the media...

And here's the episode of Crimewatch which included a re-enactment of the Collette Aram case.

 

The Bristol Four

 

Here's an article about the acquittal of the Bristol 4 who pulled down the Colston statue. Useful in various areas e.g. looking at role of juries and perverse verdicts.

Have they found the Zodiac Killer? Maybe.

 

Go here for an article about this.

Free student workbooks!

Did you know that you can get free student workbooks for this course? Well, you can - they're not exactly matching our course and follow the Napier textbooks but if you fancied getting one of those for Christmas and using these to guide you through it... find them here

The Brendan Dassey Interview

 You'll hopefully have seen bits of this before from Making and Murderer but here's a more complete version.

Amanda Knox case - various trial transcripts

 Here's an amazing resource of various transcripts from the Amanda Knox case. You ought to be using these to mine quotes for your controlled assessment.