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Criminology In The News | Insurance Fraud
According to a leading motor insurance firm, there has been a rise in fraudulent accident claims in the UK due to the use of technology. Allianz Insurance has claimed a 300% increase in the use of...
Criminology In The News | Mental Health and Violent Crime
In the aftermath of the death of a 14-year-old boy in London last month, the Mayor Of London, Sadiq Khan has warned of the dangers of cutting provision to mental health services and how it is...
Criminology In The News | Unsafe Convictions
The use of DNA evidence in serious cases of violence, murder and sexual assault is commonplace in contemporary police investigations, in part due to the advances in technology over the past few...
Police are turning to rap music videos as evidence of crimes according to a new study. The Compound Injustice report found that there were 68 cases of rap music videos being used as evidence of...
Social media posts of women on nights out who are filmed without their consent might be threatening the well-being of young women in Manchester, according to the BBC. The videos, which have been...
Criminology In The News | Police Bust Global Cyber Gang
The organisers of a major internet phishing scam have been arrested in a global operation to shut down an ‘industrial scale’ fraud operation targeting over 70,000 UK citizens. 37 people were...
The media plays many different roles in the reporting of crime and the growth of citizen journalism is one factor in the number of crimes being reported to the police. A recent event has been...
In this series so far, we have looked at several articles surrounding the murder of Brianna Ghey, focusing on the crime itself, and the campaign started by Brianna’s mother, Esther Ghey. In this...
WJEC Criminology | Germany Changes Marijuana Laws
As of April 1st 2024, the possession of, and growing of Cannabis was decriminalised in Germany. Known for its beer consumption, Germany has been in the news recently regarding this significant and...
Following the sentencing of Eddie Ratcliffe and Scarlett Jenkinson, for the murder of Brianna Ghey in February 2023, attention has turned to a campaign for change, started by Brianna’s mother...
Criminology In The News: Tougher Sentences
Conservative MP Jonathan Gullis has joined calls for imposing a stricter sentence for a man found guilty of gross negligence after his partner was left in a scalding bath. Mark Clowes was given a...
Criminology In The News | The Case of Colin Pitchfork
The name Colin Pitchfork will be familiar to many criminology students studying the WJEC Level 3 Criminology course as many features of this case have been detailed in resources and textbooks, but...
Criminology Case: The Case of Lorena Bobbit
Some murders are committed under the influence of a psychotic state, possibly influenced by a disorder such as schizophrenia, and sometimes as a response to situational factors, such as domestic...
Criminology In The News: The Murder of Brianna Ghey
On Friday 2nd February 2024, Eddie Ratcliffe and Scarlett Jenkinson were sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Brianna Ghey in February 2023. Ratcliffe and Jenkinson, who were both...
Organised Crime | Pleading Guilty
In December 2023, the National Crime Agency seized vast quantities of cocaine and cannabis, smuggled by a cross-channel organised gang led by Anthony Terry and Michael Collis. In an article...
Contemporary Case Study | Jailed for Racist Abuse
Recently, Jamie Arnold was banned from football matches for seven years and jailed for six months, after making racist comments aimed at the footballer, Rio Ferdinand.