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Will piloting juryless trials for rape cases in Scotland lead to a reduction in bias?
Society, Politics & Law

Will piloting juryless trials for rape cases in Scotland lead to a reduction in bias?

...free from by rape myths bias (Curley and Munro, 2023). Indeed, it could be contended that the criminal justice process during trial itself perpetuates rape myths, given the adversarial nature of the proceedings and the trial structure (Cowan, 2021). In order to sway juries, the adversarial process encourages lawyers to use psychological shorthand of rape mythology and set...
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Behind the camera
History & The Arts

Behind the camera

...free of the censorious comments of official newsreel coverage. Other campaigning and pressure groups did the same, making films to advance their cause, whether it was religious, tee-total, anti-war, pro-strike or whatever. Pitted against the limited resources of these ‘outsiders’ were the limitless, official resources of the state, making film and videos as part of...
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A history of child protection
Education & Development

A history of child protection

...free milk, and medical treatment brought about improvements in the physical health of children, and led to a sense of public satisfaction that children were being cared for. [Help me] Then the death of five year old Maria Colwell, murdered by her step father in 1973, despite being supposedly under the protection of the local authority, shocked the nation. It seemed the...
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Planetary Protection: Space Governance and the Search for Life
Science, Maths & Technology

Planetary Protection: Space Governance and the Search for Life

...NASA Interim Directive: Biological Planetary Protection for Human Missions to Mars’, NID 8715.129, 9 July, P.1(a)(c) [Online]. Available at: https://nodis3.gsfc.nasa.gov/OPD_docs/NID_8715_129_.pdf American Space Commerce Free Enterprise Act (HR 2809, 115th Congress, 25 April 2018), §80103 (c)(2)(C)(D) [the bill passed the House of Representatives but not the Senate]...
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Killers or carers?
Nature & Environment

Killers or carers?

...Free Range Freshly Cracked Eggs’ used in their breakfast offerings. The advert includes a brief skit between two contented hens named Choops and Chloe, with CGI animated beaks and given human voices: Choops: ‘Oh you’ve gotta love a real egg’ Chloe: ‘Oh yeah, no you, you, you ’ave yeah’ The advert glosses over uncomfortable truths about the commodification of...
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Children and ethnicity
Education & Development

Children and ethnicity

...free to talk about whatever concerns them. If they do make a negative remark they can then be encouraged to think about the implications of what they have said and how it makes others feel. Research has shown that it is possible to have meaningful conversations even with very young children and, through these, to challenge in a constructive way any negative attitudes they...
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Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology
Education & Development

Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology

...free of race. Criminology’s poltergeist and Europe’s Whiteness Black Caribbean pupils are more than three times more likely to be permanently excluded from school; those who identify as Black or Black British are four times more likely to be stopped by the police than their White counterparts...Few people will defend racism but many people continue to misunderstand...
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Paul Williams - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Paul Williams - Earth in Vision

...course when we’re filming series like Planet Earth and Frozen Planet and series like this, often we’re trying to show the ideal world, the world that we would love to really exist. And this means that we’re often standing on the side of a road pointing away from all the pollution that’s behind us. So we’re trying to hide a lot of that side of things because we...
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