Crime must pay up for research
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The cost of crime in the UK continues to rise each year, with burglary and theft amounting to 3.5 billion pounds sterling in 1996 and the state spending 10.75 billion pounds sterling on policing and punishing crime. Despite this, there is little public funding for research into the nature of crime. Most criminological research is undertaken by the Home Office's research and statistics directorate, which has an external research fund of just 800,000 pounds sterling, while other criminal research sources are equally underfunded. The private sector should be made to contribute to criminological research.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1997
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Take the purse but cut the strings
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The funding and research councils that provide Britain's universities with money are threatening academic freedom by increasingly specifying how that money might be used. The English funding council's idea that its future research spending patterns should 'respond to national priorities' is particularly worrying, as is the Dept. of Trade and Industry's promised 'market-driven' approach to technology research. Large companies and research charities could be deterred from putting cash into an institution whose research they feel is being pushed in the wrong direction.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1997
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Crime busters take care
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Humans are both social animals and are influenced by their biology. Both biology and environment affect behavior, though biology cannot be said to determine behavior. There is a correlation between crime and certain biological factors such as high levels of testosterone and low levels of cholesterol. Research is needed to understand this link. Prisoners were given vitamins in one prison in the US, and this had an impact on the level of violence. Children in UK schools are often malnourished.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1995
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