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David WilsonSunday Post |
At the end of June, I was in The Old Fruit Market in Glasgow with Martin Frizell for the inaugural Scottish podcast awards. We’d been nominated for...
I remember in 1982 watching the BBC documentary series simply entitled Police. Produced by the respected film-maker Roger Graef, it followed the work...
The strange case of Nancy Guthrie, who was kidnapped in Arizona at the start of February, brings to mind the tragic tale from 2023 of Nicola Bulley,...
Leading criminologist David Wilson delves into the world of a fake admiral, a Madeleine McCann imposter and a notorious US rapist The arrest and...
From Netflix to lecture halls, the question remains the same: why do people commit horrific crimes? David Wilson unpacks our obsession with the...
I’m currently reading Oliver Basciano’s Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World, which includes the extraordinary story of...
In the early hours of Christmas Day 1950, a patrolling police officer found Kay Matheson and Ian Hamilton, two students from Glasgow University,...
Scottish criminologist David Wilson was shocked by what he saw on a daytime stroll through one of England's biggest cities. Here, he shares the...
Why do offenders film themselves committing crime, then share that film with friends, or upload it onto social media platforms? It seems...
Misogyny is not innate but learned behaviour and increasingly boys and young men are learning how to hate from social media. Perhaps we’ve all...