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We can reduce crime with compassion
Grace Gordon: A more collective and sustainable approach to safety is to centre care, compassion and connection to the people and world around us.
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Justice reform needs a vision – and someone with the guts to speak up for it
Holly Willson: The honest confrontation needed to create transformative change, just as in a transformative justice model, requires articulating wrongdoings and engaging in open communication around efforts to work through and address harm.
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Unpacking the tough-on-crime election agenda
Lin Mussell: Tough-on-crime platforms are an easy way to shore up votes, but the evidence shows that crime statistics are actually decreasing.
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The other side of talking tough on retail crime
Tom Pearce: Research shows that rising costs do drive crime. We need to reject the framing that conveniently ignores them.
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The media crime narrative
In a media landscape of declining ad revenue and web traffic mostly dictated by engagement-driven social media algorithms, the media’s profit incentive creates some particularly perverse outcomes.