A compound in Gambaga Witches Camp in the North East region of Ghana.
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Victims of witchcraft accusations face alienation or exclusion from their communities.
Fulani herdsman at Kachia Grazing Reserve, Kaduna State, Nigeria, in April, 2019.
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Ecowas regulations on pastoralism discourage big investment in livestock and need to be reformed in line with present day realities.
Retailers want police to respond more to shop theft reports.
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Shoplifting in the UK has become brazen, threatening to shop staff, and seemingly without consequence.
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Indigenous knowledge of spiritual protection could help fight crime.
British nurse and now convicted serial killer Lucy Letby being arrested in July 2018.
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These ‘custodial killers’ are often healthcare workers who murder helpless or dependent people in their care.
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While there have been significant improvements in the way complainants in particularly are dealt with in court cases, some old myths and stereotypes persist.
A refugee child in South Africa plays on a road side after attacks on foreigners in 2008.
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The South African print often uses language that portrays foreigners in a bad light, and dehumanises them.
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As humans, we want a rational explanation to help us understand why someone would commit these horrific crimes.
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Our research finds at-risk youth in north Queensland wanted to feel safe and included in the community, but often felt the opposite.
A laptop is one of car thieves’ go-to tools.
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Thieves are trading their pry bars for laptops and wireless devices to steal cars that nowadays rely on remotes and computer networks.
The Crime Severity Index is calculated like a crime rate, but different crimes are given a different weight, or importance, based on their severity.
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Recent data from Statistics Canada shows crime rates in Canada rising. Crime has become a hot-button political issue in Canadian cities. But what does the data actually mean?
The possibility of introducing mandatory prison sentences for prolific shoplifters has been mooted by government ministers.
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Integrated offender management is a better way of dealing with shoplifters than prison.
The government, banks and other financial organisations are now dealing with fraud by using increasingly sophisticated detection methods.
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Fraud was up 25% in the UK in 2021/22.
Sometimes, true love is too good to be true.
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Dating apps have given an ancient profession, confidence scamming, a high-tech boost.
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Fatal stabbings are the leading cause of homicide in countries with restricted access to firearms, including Australia. New research could help solve these cases.
Panic over supposed ‘super-predator’ teens ended years ago, but its consequences did not.
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Research on developing brains has helped bring about a sea change in attitudes toward juvenile life without parole. But many people who committed crimes as minors are still serving such sentences.
The death penalty has not been enforced in Ghana for over three decades.
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Ghana is a signatory to several international conventions that oblige it to guarantee the right to life.
The handling and disposition of human bodies raises all sorts of ethical and legal questions.
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The short answer: It’s complicated – and depends, in part, where you live.
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The scandal and its aftermath point to a systemic failure of police accountability. Such failure is fertile soil for police corruption and makes a repeat of the scandal entirely possible.
Building a profile of someone can make it easier for criminals to gain access to their personal accounts.
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AI could allow cybercriminals to operate with greater efficiency, targeting more people at once.