We can’t know why Bird killed, but if gun owners weren’t able to store ammunition at home mass shootings would be less likely. Yesterday’s killings in Cumbria have already been compared with Hungerford and Dunblane, Britain’s two previous rampage killings. Now there are three. But while such incidents are undoubtedly very rare, they are not completely unknown and if we
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An indepth feature on the misuse of firearms by the Professor of Criminology and Public Policy of the University of Brighton, Peter Squires. Read Article > Protect Magazine Issue_No4
Professor Peter Squires, criminologist in the School of Applied Social Science, recently took part in a debate on international comparisons relating to gun violence with a number of US academics and lobbyists for the Huffington Post. Watch > http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/do-demographics-impact-gun-violence/50f6e4402b8c2a21690001e0 http://www.brighton.ac.uk/sass/news/2013/130131-squires.php Skip to 6:33 below to hear what Peter had to say. Originally aired on January
Wayne La Pierre, NRA Executive President of the NRA ignored hecklers and protesters as he outlines the NRA’s response to the Newtown 2012 school shooting. At a debate in London a few months earlier WLP had had an even rougher ride in front of a British audience Watching Wayne La Pierre hectoring the world’s media for having
The USA leads the world in gun ownership, but it’s our individualistic culture that puts us at greater risk of mass shootings compared with other countries where guns are prevalent, according to a British criminologist who has studied gun violence in different nations. Mass shooters in any nation tend to be loners with not much
15th November 2012 University criminologist Professor Peter Squires writes of his fears that the new police commissioners will lead to populist “tough justice”. The Police Crime Commissioner (PCC) elections are to be held today (November 15) but despite the late smattering of advertisements on TV and elsewhere, there is still substantial uncertainty about what these
The activities of the CRAS research cluster combine critical approaches to the traditional concerns of criminology and criminal justice with research interests in social control, surveillance and security as well as in forms of deviance, protest and resistance. Thus, while we are interested in undertaking work which explores the operation of criminal justice systems, we
Published 11 September 2012 Victorian Society was haunted by a fear of the ‘dangerous’ class – the workless, rootless, immoral, criminal, mobile and potentially revolutionary enemy within, spawned by the rapid industrialisation and urbanisation of the 19th century, according to criminologist Professor Peter Squires. He and other leading experts in the field are now gathering at
A conference convened by the crime, resistance and security research cluster, School of Applied Social Science University of Brighton Wednesday 12 September 2012 Exploring issues from Guy Standing’s book The Precariat: the New Dangerous More Information > http://www.brighton.ac.uk/sass/research/conferences/precariat.php
28 August 2012 A campaign to ban the sale of gun magazines to children has been launched by Britain’s largest animal rights group, Animal Aid. Among those backing the initiative is the respected criminologist and public policy expert, Professor Peter Squires of the University of Brighton. Across the country, in high street newsagents such as