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The cutting season: Female Genital Mutilation and the UK (by Alice Onwordi, November/December 2011 ): Over the school holidays hundreds of British girls are taken abroad to undergo a procedure that is internationally recognised as a violation of their human rights. Alice Onwordi reports
The rise of the female suicide bomber (by Mia Bloom, November/December 2011 ): Al-Qaeda leaders are increasingly in favour of using women in terrorist attacks, reports Mia Bloom
Book review: The Secrets of Pain by Phil Rickman (by Natalie Haynes, November/December 2011 ): Natalie Haynes endures a painful crime novel
Captive audience (by Richard Smyth, July/August 2011 ): Sympathetic ear or religious recruiter - what’s a prison chaplain for? Richard Smyth finds out
Book review: Crooked Talk by Jonathon Green (by Michael Bywater, July/August 2011 ): Michael Bywater finds that Jonathon Green is the aceman of lexicographers, and that's no honey-fuggle
Solitary (by Sharon Shalev, January/February 2011 ): 30,000 supermax prisoners in the US are denied any human contact. So how does it affect them? Sharon Shalev goes inside
Book review: Slaughter on a Snowy Morn by Colin Evans (by Louise Foxcroft, September/October 2010 ): Louise Foxcroft on a bloody murder and the birth of forensic science
Dangerous liaisons (by Sally Feldman, January/February 2010 ): Will the new Policing and Crime Act protect prostitutes – or persecute them? Sally Feldman plunges into the underworld
The Turnaround by George Pelecanos (by Stuart Sim, November/December 2008 ): Stuart Sim visits George Pelecanos's mean streets
Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties by Michael Lesy (by Michael Binyon, March/April 2007 ): Michael Binyon is not blown away by the Windy City
Burning issue (by Mike Presdee, March/April 2005 ): Each week there are over 2,000 cases of arson in the UK, and the numbers are rising steadily. Mike Presdee analyses the nature of and motivation for this crime of passion
Burntout case (by Stuart Sim, July/August 2004 ): Stuart Sim descends into the murky world of the crime novel
Shut that Door (by Austin Williams, Autumn 2002 ): Austin Williams suggests that you leave your house unlocked
A friend to the friendless (by David Silver, Web Exclusive, July 2011): In the July/August 2011 issue of New Humanist, Richard Smyth assessed the role of prison chaplains. Here David Silver, who is serving a life sentence in HMP Gartree, offers his view