Policing and criminal justice system
A review of a new report from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
Racist attacks in Northern Ireland have increased by 43 per cent in the last year, according to police statistics. The police also say that some of the attacks are being carried out by loyalist paramilitaries.
A reflection on deaths that took place on 15 April 1989 and the state’s response.
Recent Publications
April 8, 2014
Race & Class, April 2014
In the latest issue of Race & Class, Sindre Bangstad explores the philosophical and political underpinnings of the freedom of expression debate in Norway. He warns that virulent far-right racism and extremism has been sanitised and made mainstream, threatening liberal democracy and equal citizenship in the process.
January 23, 2014
Investigated or ignored?
Investigated or ignored? An analysis of race-related deaths since the Macpherson report, analyses the criminal justice system's response to racist murders, or atacks with a known or suspected racial element, since the publication of the Macpherson report.
January 9, 2014
Race & Class, January 2014
In the new issue of Race & Class, three distinguished academics from Sweden's Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society, examine the 2013 'riots' in Sweden, comparing these to the August 2011 'riots' in the UK, and similar disturbances across the French banlieues in 2005.
October 16, 2013
Race & Class, October 2013
In the October 2013 issue of Race & Class, Phil Scraton examines the legacy of the Hillsborough football stadium disaster, which claimed the lives of ninety-six people.
Upcoming Events
The Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association Campaign (JENGbA) is marching for those ‘wrongly imprisoned’.
‘How Violent is Britain?’ is a one-day conference bringing together campaigners, academics, key public figures and journalists to explore how we should tackle institutional state and corporate violence in Britain.
Apr 17 2014
Framing the death of Mark Duggan
As the family of Mark Duggan launch a judicial review of the inquest verdict, IRR News examines the wider context of the death.
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