A Perspective on Crime - Exploring contemporary research in criminology.

A weekly podcast that profiles and examines recently published work in the field of criminology. The aim is to provide an insight into exciting new research that is challenging the way we think about crime and offering solutions to some of societies most intractable issues. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A Perspective on Crime - Exploring contemporary research in criminology. is a society podcast hosted by Shane Tanner, with 18 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Shane Tanner hosts A Perspective on Crime - Exploring contemporary research in criminology., a society show with 18 episodes published.

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  Episode Seventeen - Rape Myths

  May 14, 202616 minS0

  <p>Why are victims of rape and serious sexual assault highly unlikely to receive justice?</p><br><p>It's clear that they are failed by the criminal justice system, but are the reasons we assume for that failing dictated by fact or fiction?</p><br><p>The research we are looking at in this episode is called "Rape Trials: Bridging the Gap Between Myth and Reality" by Dr. Candida Saunders. It was published in Criminal Law Review in 2025.</p><br><p>Dr Saunders Podcast is Rape on Trial. https://www.criminaljusticeinaction.com/</p><p>.</p><br><p>To contact A...

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  Episode Sixteen - The Paradox of Polite Online Grooming

  Mar 9, 202620 minS0

  <p>However disturbing the thought online grooming of children and young people is, we reconcile ourselves that we know at least how these predators behave.</p><p>They’ll manner their interactions down to a victim’s level. </p><p>They’ll use age-appropriate language to seem accessible.</p><p>They’ll draw upon the power dynamic of age.</p><p>Right?</p><p>Through a new piece of research by Beata Pienczykowski & Pauline Madella called "I was so Afraid All You Wanted from Me Was Sex’: A Corpus Assisted Study in the Pragmatics of Manipulation in Online Child Sexual Groomers" we...

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  Episode Fifteen - Suicide Within the Police Family

  Feb 23, 202623 minS0

  <p>The subject of mental health and suicide is belatedly moving from the shadows into the public conversation.</p><p>Within policing - a service which by definition is exposes those within it to the extremes of human experience - do the provisions exist to provide adequate support to officers and staff? Do Forces even have aware of the unique risks it's employees are exposed? Do the official statistics even tell an accurate story?</p><br><p>The research we are looking at in this episode is called Lives on the Line of Duty: Preventing Suicide Among Police Officers and...

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  Episode Forteen - Is it a "scam" or is it a "fraud"?

  Feb 10, 202615 minS0

  <p>What's the difference between a scam and a fraud?</p><p>Do you have the same reaction when told someone has been scammed as you would if you'd been told they'd been the victim of fraud?</p><p> </p><p>That's the question we look at in this week's episode as we look at a paper entitled "More than splitting hairs: Exploring trivialisation and harmful narrative distortion in the synonymous use of ‘scam’ and ‘fraud’". </p><p>It is authored by Elisabeth Carter, Jack Mark Whittaker, and Tim Day, and published in the journal Crime Media Culture. </p><br><p>https...

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  Episode Thirteen - Is Now The Time To Call The Police?

  Feb 4, 202624 minS0

  <p>When faced with a potentially dangerous situation, at what point do the public think it's right to call the police? </p><p>Do different demographics asses risk differently and what are the triggers that motivate dialling 999?</p><br><p>The title of the work is "Should I Call the Police?’ Exploring Public Views on Whether to Invoke Police in Incidents Involving People with Vulnerabilities". The authors are David Rowlands, Christine A. Weirich, Ben Bradford and Adam Crawford published in The British Journal of Criminology in 2025.</p><p>https://academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/bjc/azaf118/8407384</p><br><p>To...

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