Britain’s poorest children are increasingly subject to poor housing and dangerous policing tactics including Tasers...

Vague categories like ‘extremist’ and ‘radicalisation’ are trawling Muslims in a very large ‘counter-terrorism’ net.

It has become fashionable for first-world donors to embrace ‘community policing’ for developing-world security...

The massacre at a university in Kenya should lead the government to a recognition that repressive and discriminatory...

There was uproar in India at the brutal gang rape of a 23 year old student on her way home from the cinema. Can we...

The urge to reform the prison system should be applauded, but alternative forms of confinement are becoming...

Recognising there are political elements to any campaign of militant violence makes it less ‘terrifying’ for society...

The police were a symbol of the old, apartheid South Africa. Unfortunately they are becoming a symbol of the ‘new...

No one is immune to the Egyptian authorities’ ruthless crackdown. Most recently ‘debauchery’ charges have been...

Students shot dead by police, others “disappeared”, mass graves located … the absence of the rule of law and...

Militarisation of the police is a developing phenomenon, spreading into nominally democratic societies as the bonds...

Scaling back police militarization will not end the abuse of the state; the US has consistently mobilized the same...

Film: Testimony of the violence of a police-led eviction and experience of the policing which comes from racist...

The world now knows the name of James Foley, the US journalist brutally murdered by Islamic State. Rather fewer have...

Welcome to a new era of American policing, where cops increasingly see themselves as soldiers occupying enemy territory.

Chile's diplomatic outcry against Israel has been welcomed by supporters of the Palestinian cause, but its...

It has recently emerged that the UK police have been spying on black justice campaigns for decades. Home Secretary...

Why do Britons want more policing, prisons and punishment? The political left need to incorporate morality into...

London's Gay Pride includes the Metropolitan Police marching in full uniform. Visibility as proud LGBTQ police...

As the World Cup opens, few Brazilians are heading for the beach to samba: behind the stereotype is a country which...