Social Sciences
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Prostitutes face prison because of government’s attempts to ‘help’ them, says researcher
The use of Anti Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs), Drug Treatment Orders and other measures designed to help women in the sex industry could lead to more prostitutes being jailed now than fifty years ago, a researcher has claimed.
Dr Jo Phoenix, a leading sex crime researcher at the University of Bath, warned that a government strategy which was supposed to help prostitutes onto drink and drug rehabilitation programmes was in fact just a “crackdown” against them.
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England’s rural population is ageing faster
The number of older people living in the English countryside is soaring at a much faster rate than the rest of the country, posing numerous urgent challenges to the Government and other bodies.
Researchers from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and other leading experts will highlight the statistics and issues they provoke at a conference in York today, Tuesday April 4.
Figures show that 5.3m of England’s projected 5.5m population growth in the period until 2028 w
Youth justice: tough on punishment, soft on the causes of crime, says researcher
Police, magistrates and Youth Offending Teams feel that they have little choice than to hand out harsher punishments for young offenders despite the government’s emphasis on tackling the underlying causes of their criminal behaviour, new research has revealed.
A senior police officer has told researchers from the University of Bath that parts of the youth justice system work against each other in ways that disadvantage young offenders and keep them on the path to re-offending.
We’re most susceptible to outside influence in the earliest stages of shopping
Researchers from MIT show that we’re most susceptible to promotions and coupons at the entrance of a store – before we’ve had a chance to figure out our shopping goals. Notably, conditional coupons presented at this stage are so powerful that they can cause a consumer to spend either more or less than usual, depending on whether the condition stipulated on the coupon is higher or lower than how much the consumer would otherwise spend.
“Consumers start with fuzzy shopping goals,
A Decade After Dunblane- Are Our Children Safe In School?
The Home Office Safer Hospitals and Schools Programme evaluated by PRCI Ltd, a spin-out company from the University, and funded by the Treasury Invest to Save Budget (ISB) reveals that schools have a poor understanding of crime and disorder problems at their site.
Hospitals too do not have a full picture of crime on their sites because data is not properly recorded. Efforts to reduce crime, therefore, cannot be fully effective as the scale and precise nature of the problem is not known.
Quality of life can improve in old age, claim researchers
Increasing age does not necessarily cause a reduction in the quality of life, and in some cases, can even improve it.
Research published online this month in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, describes how researchers looked at indicators of the quality of life, and found that in England it is above average between the ages of 50 and 84, and in some cases increases compared with earlier years.
The researchers from Imperial College London, Karolinska Insti