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‘Islamophobia’ Revisited
£7.00Hardeep Singh, September 2023 Islamophobia Revisited by Hardeep Singh builds on a previous collection of essays on Islamophobia published by Civitas in August 2019. Hardeep Singh returns to this topic, and in Islamophobia Revisited conducts a thorough investigation into how Islamophobia is defined by local authorities describing a ‘panoply’ of different approaches and definitions. In… Read Full Article
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‘The New Syria?’
£8.00Edited by Emma Webb, September 2020 Following the recent terror attacks on London Bridge and Streatham by Islamist terror offenders – who had been released from prison half-way through their sentences via the automatic release scheme – there has been increasing concern amongst many people in Britain that the prison system is not working in… Read Full Article
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Democratic Civilisation or Judicial Supremacy?
£7.00David G. Green, March 2016 How should our laws be made and where does final power lie? This question has grown increasingly salient in recent years as the judiciary has pitted itself against Parliament in a series of harmful and absurd rulings. Many of these confrontations have revolved around the Human Rights Act, but far… Read Full Article
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Fallen through the cracks
£7.00Emma Webb, August 2020 A significant number of Muslim women in the United Kingdom are in unregistered religious-only marriages, many of whom will be unaware that they lack legal protections and access to marital rights. In this report, Emma Webb examines how the asymmetric nature of those sometimes polygamous marriages and Islamic divorce – which… Read Full Article
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Fixing Human Rights Law
£9.00Dr Michael Arnheim, September 2023 Fixing Human Rights Law by Dr. Michael Arnheim, a practising barrister, Sometime Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge and author of 23 published books to date, provides an overview of what has gone wrong with contemporary human rights legislation – while suggesting ‘revocation’ by parliament is the best way forward.… Read Full Article
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How hate crime policy is undermining our law and society
£8.00Richard Norrie, May 2021 Politicians, activists, celebrities and senior police officers appear united in their highlighting of apparent surges in hate crimes in recent years. But this report by the Director of the Statistics and Policy Research Programme at Civitas, Richard Norrie, offers a critical appraisal of the ideas behind what we call ‘hate crime’… Read Full Article
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How we think about disparity
£6.00Richard Norrie, December 2020 A government-appointed Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities has been set up to address disparity between ethnic or racial groups in outcomes relating to health, education, employment and other areas. This follows numerous reviews conducted by various governments since 2010. Drawing on the full array of existing reviews, this report by… Read Full Article
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In defence of British openness
£9.00Richard Norrie, February 2022 Richard Norrie, director of the Statistics and Policy Research Programme at Civitas takes a forensic look at multiracial Britain. In this major new study of multi-ethnic Britain, Richard Norrie makes the case that ethnic minority individuals fare better here than in the familial countries of origin, with a confident minority middle-class.… Read Full Article
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Is Identity Politics Undermining Police Impartiality?
£7.00David G. Green, December 2021 When we encounter the police, can we rely on them to apply the law impartially? To act without fear or favour has been seen as the essence of policing since the first modern police force was founded in 1829. In this study, David Green looks closely at the growing importance of police pressure… Read Full Article
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Islamophobia
£5.00Emma Webb (ed.), August 2019 In November 2018, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims published a report proposing a working definition of Islamophobia which described it as ‘a type of racism’. Despite having received barely any public scrutiny or debate, the definition has already been adopted by local councils and political parties. This volume… Read Full Article
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Parents have their say on cannabis
£6.00Frank Young and Shaun Bailey, July 2022 6 million new cannabis users if cannabis is legalised says new Civitas polling New polling shows a million young adults (age 18-24) would try cannabis for the first time if the UK legalised cannabis. More than 1.5 million parents of primary school children would take up cannabis if… Read Full Article
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Policing Hate
£10.00Joanna Williams, December 2020 Attempts to criminalise speech that some consider to be hateful have a long history, dating back to blasphemy laws passed in the medieval period and which were not fully rescinded until earlier this century. The Race Relations Act (1965) prohibited ‘incitement to racial hatred’ and since this time, a myriad of… Read Full Article
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