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.
Social Sciences
Feb 6, 2024
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Guidance for police dealing with children in custody must be overhauled, a new study has concluded, where for the first time in England and Wales, researchers engaged with child suspects while they were detained in police ...
Social Sciences
May 25, 2023
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A University of Queensland study found many Indigenous women who died in custody had not been sentenced by a court, but were on remand or in protective custody.
Social Sciences
Feb 8, 2023
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Intimate partner violence (IPV) can have significant implications for the well-being of mothers and children during separation and divorce. Yet IPV is often not included in custody cases or factored into court decisions, ...
Social Sciences
Jun 23, 2022
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Girls and women who have been through the care system should be diverted away from custodial sentences into community alternatives wherever possible, says a new report published today.
Social Sciences
May 3, 2022
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Participants in a government scheme to check the welfare of people detained in police stations are ineffective at preventing abuse and death in custody, research says.
Political science
Apr 20, 2022
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Thousands of police detentions and voluntary interviews of vulnerable people may have been carried out without an "appropriate adult" (AA) present, a report has found.
Social Sciences
Oct 13, 2020
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The Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT) Limited ('ALS') is collaborating with Rapido Social at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) to improve its Custody Notification Service (CNS), following project funding from the ...
Social Sciences
Sep 1, 2020
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Legal professionals, journalists and researchers now have access to a new and improved version of the Deaths in Custody Project—the first comprehensive national database of its kind.
Social Sciences
Jul 13, 2020
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A German court released Tuesday former Audi chief executive Rupert Stadler after months in custody but he remains under suspicion in connection with parent group Volkswagen's role in the "dieselgate" emissions cheating scandal.
Business
Oct 30, 2018
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