Sean Morrison

Investigations

Bristol data tools risked wrongly flagging victims and suspects, Children’s Commissioner ‘deeply concerned’

Bristol City Council data tools used to predict risk of child exploitation may have wrongly identified individuals, the Cable learns, raising concerns about possible historic harm caused before they were quietly decommissioned.

University of Bristol paid private security firm to ‘spy’ on pro-Palestine protesters

The rise and fall of Bristol Patriots

Features

How to interfere with jury trials, and lose

A jury refused to convict six Palestine Action activists who smashed up an Israeli weapons factory in Bristol, overcoming a government-led smear campaign and arms lobby pressure

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Reports

Palestine Action’s ‘Filton 6’ cleared in ‘huge victory for moral courage in face of political pressure’

The Big Story

Hurt people, hurt people: The hidden lives of children behind bars

Surveillance isn’t safeguarding: Think Family and the fight for transparency

Bristol City Council says its mass data gathering tool is designed to protect, not profile the 55,000 families it monitors. But is it pushing school children into the criminal justice system?

We’ve Got Your Boy: Episode 5, The Streets Don’t Love You

Exploring the role of love in addressing the issues that underpin serious youth violence, why plans to transform the youth justice system are stalling, and how other countries are miles ahead

We’ve Got Your Boy: Episode 4, Ain’t No One’s Friend

Trust plays an important role in how we work with young people to prevent serious youth violence. Here we explore trust, built and broken, by institutions, staff in secure units, and the media

We’ve Got Your Boy: Episode 3, Doli Capax (Capable of ‘Evil’)

At 10 years old, England and Wales has one of the lowest ages of criminal responsibility in the world. In the third episode of this investigative series, we challenge the ideology of punishment over prevention.

We’ve Got Your Boy: Episode 2, Can’t Meet His Needs

The role of school exclusions in serious youth violence, and what a safeguarding review tells us about the issue

We’ve Got Your Boy: Episode 1, Hurt people, hurt people

The perpetrators of serious youth violence are often victims themselves, of failing systems of support that if they worked properly could have prevented needless loss of life. How can we stop it, if we don’t address its root causes?