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Briefing Paper: Rationale for Reforming Child Protection in the direction of Democratic Oversight and Democratic Budgeting
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Dr Lynne Wrennall
Executive Director, International Public Health Research Group.
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Founding Executive Director, DGTB
https://www.dontgivethembread.net/
Adviser on Strategic Direction, Expert on Miscarriages of Justice and Judicial Misconduct, Shield the Children
https://shieldthechildren.info/academic-research/

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The role of parents in the Child Death Review Process,
Dr Lauren Devine
University of the West of England
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Policing the Edge: An Historical Analysis supporting a Liminal Perspective on Policing
Malraux W. Irvine
Researcher, International Public Health Research Group.
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Policing is Political: The Empirical Evidence
Malraux W. Irvine
Researcher, International Public Health Research Group.
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Writing out the loss: intersections and conversations between poetry and ethnography
Andrew McMillan
Senior Lecturer, Creative Writing, Liverpool John Moores University.
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Kate Pahl
Professor of Literacies in Education, University of Sheffield.
Principle Investigator of the AHRC/ESRC Connected Communities funded consortium ‘Imagine’ Project, ‘The social, historical, cultural and democratic context of civic engagement: imagining different communities and making them happen.’ Grant number ES/K002686/1.
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Should Children in ‘Care’ be Returned to their Families of Origin? A Critical Appraisal of Recent Reunification Studies
Dr Lynne Wrennall

Executive Director, International Public Health Research Group
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Public Family Law cases in the context of Miscarriages of Justice
Dr Lauren Devine
Barrister, Senior Lecturer, University of the West of England
Director of the Interdisciplinary and Expert Evidence Network (IEEN.org.uk)
Principal Investigator for the ESRC funded project Rethinking Child Protection Strategy (ES/M000990/1)
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Stephen Parker
Research Fellow, University of the West of England
Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary and Expert Evidence Network (IEEN.org.uk)
Co-Investigator for the ESRC funded project Rethinking Child Protection Strategy (ES/M000990/1)
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False Allegations of Child Abuse in Cases of Childhood Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME)
Jane Colby
Executive Director of Tymes Trust
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www.tymestrust.org
Can ‘Good Enough’ Mothers Lose Custody of their Children to Violent and Abusive Men?
Dr Phyllis Chesler,
Emerita Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies at City University of New York.
http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/
Truth withheld, Justice denied: The role of evidence suppression in the Tomlinson Case
Michael Mansfield QC
Barrister, Tooks Chambers.
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Julian Assange and WikiLeaks: A Case Study in the Criminalisation of Dissent
Professor Stuart Rees
Chair, Sydney Peace Foundation, University of Sydney.
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Agape and Ecstasy: considering post-secular orientations
Dr Tamsin Spargo
Reader in Cultural History and teaching in the Writing department, Liverpool John Moores University.
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Two Serious Case Reviews from Leeds: ‘A system clouded by secrecy and fear’?
Professor Terry Thomas, Criminal Justice Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University.
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Mad or Bad? A Case Study in extradition for Civil Commitment
Professor Terry Thomas, Criminal Justice Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University.
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"May I see your Driver's Licence Please?" The Emergence of Demeanor in Traffic Stops in the United States and El Salvador
Phillip Shon, Associate Professor of Criminology, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Carlos Ponce, Unit Chief, Center for Criminology and Police Science, National Civil Police of El Salvador,
Christine Lubaszka, Doctoral candidate, Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, University of Ontario Institute of Technology,
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Protecting people seeking asylum in the UK: A legal and welfare needs approach to the asylum determination process
Cinaed De Canntun
Advocate for Asylum Seekers
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Commentaries, Musings and Reflections

Dancing at Discos and Holding Hands on Day Trips
Clare Doran
Press and Publications Officer at Liverpool John Moores University.
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A Poetic Intervention: Intrinsic Freedom
Maria Contempree
Teacher, Loreto College, Kirribilli, Sydney, NSW
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An Artistic Intervention: Social Services in the Lives of Children
Albina Kumirova
Artist, Liverpool John Moores University
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Book Reviews

Book Review: Gareth Peirce, Dispatches from the Dark Side: On Torture and the Death of Justice

Reviewer: Dr Patrick Webb
College of Social Sciences, University of Phoenix - Houston Campus
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Book Review: Eugene Puryear,  Shackled and Chained: Mass Incarceration in Capitalist America
Dr Patrick Webb and Dr Kenneth Foy
Department of Social Sciences
Southern University at New Orleans
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Book Review: Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.
Review by Dr Patrick Webb
Department of Social Sciences
Southern University at New Orleans
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Argument & critique ISSN 2059-7606

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