Episode 3 | The Ruth Ellis Files: A Very British Crime Story

The Mystery of Murder: A Horizon Guide

Michael Mosley uses the BBC archives to chart scientists' progress as they probed the mind of the murderer to try to understand why pe...

Can Criminals Say Sorry?

Former EastEnders star Brooke Kinsella explores the use of restorative justice in Britain today and finds out what happens when offenders and their ...

Timothy Evans and Derek Bentley | The Ruth Ellis Files: A Very British Crime Story

The narrator discusses the introduction of the defence of diminished responsibility in Eng...

Prisons | Crime - Are We Tough Enough?

Chris Daw and Ayesha Nayyar look at what role our prisons should play in the fight against crime.

1: Victorian Spies | The History Of Surveillance

Jeremy Bentham’s revolutionary prison, the Panopticon, where all inmates were constantly visible, spawned a culture of mug-s...

10/05/2016 | Science Cafe

Adam Walton looks at the work of the National Centre for Mental Health in Cardiff, where scientists are exploring the question of whether genes aff...

A Different Brain | Louis Theroux

Louis takes a look at the issues that some of the estimated one million people in the UK living with the long-term effects of a brain injur...

Banged up and Left to Fail?

Student Natalie, who was repeatedly in and out of the criminal justice system during her teens, explores the impact being locked up has had on yo...

Behind Bars | Youth Nation: Changing the World

Richard Blackwood hosts youth talk show about young people in prison, discussing what young people need after prison and how t...

Brain areas and aggression | The Mystery of Murder: A Horizon Guide

Dr Raine's research into aggression showed the important role of different brain areas including the pre-...

Childhood experience and violent crime | The Mystery of Murder: A Horizon Guide

Scientists explain how different childhood experiences and socialisation can lead to an indiv...

Citizen patrols | CrimeBeat

An explanation of how citizen patrols have been set up to reduce crime in the local area where police patrols are not available.

Collecting fingerprint evidence | Panorama

A description of how fingerprints are collected.

Early biological theories of aggression | The Mystery of Murder: A Horizon Guide

Lombrosso's early ideas about the biological basis for criminal behaviour and the subsequent...

Episode 1 | The Ruth Ellis Files: A Very British Crime Story

Series re-examining the Ruth Ellis case. Gillian Pachter takes a forensic look at the police investigation and d...

Episode 2 | The Ruth Ellis Files: A Very British Crime Story

In part two, Gillian turns her attention to Ruth's trial, which took just a day and a half. Her lawyer pursued a...

Evil place vs good people | The Stanford Prison Experiment

Zimbardo explains the conclusions that he came to from the Stanford prison experiment about whether it was the sit...

Expert witness bias | Panorama

An expert witness is approached to 'help' provide evidence and advice to a guilty defendant.

Expert witnesses | Panorama

Further examples of expert witnesses and the role they play in court cases.

Eyewitness testimony | David Wilson's Crime Files

The problems of eye witness testimony and the effect of leading questions.