Criminal Justice and Policing

Jeffrey Ian Ross explains why convict criminology, where incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals are given a voice, might change the status quo and improve the criminal justice system. …Read more

In this episode, George Miller talks to the author of What are Prisons for?, prison inspector and visiting professor of law at Oxford Hindpal Singh Bhui, about why we lock so many people up.…Read more

Hindpal Singh Bhui of HM Inspectorate of Prisons looks back at the politics of imprisonment, at the disproportionate numbers of minority ethnic prisoners, and the role prison played in replacing slavery as a means of controlling Black people.…Read more

Ragnhild Sollund and Martine Lie discuss the protection of endangered animals offered by conventions such as CITES and the Bern Convention and ask if it's purely symbolic.…Read more

Nicola Roberts, Lauren Doyle and Mark Roberts call on universities to reframe their personal safety advice to students to avoid victim-blaming.…Read more

Daniel Newman, co-author of 'Justice in a Time of Austerity' and 'Experiences of Criminal Justice', explains the recent High Court victory by criminal lawyers over the UK government over legal aid (under)funding. …Read more

Jardar Østbø, co-author of 'Luxury and Corruption', dispels the myth that Putin is the ultimate enemy of the liberal capitalist order and Navalny its hero. Rather they are the two sides of the same neoliberal capitalist coin. …Read more

John Kendall, author of 'Regulating Police Detention', asks why the 23 deaths in policy custody each year in England and Wales, and one suicide per week after detention, don’t attract more concern.…Read more

Transforming Society's most read articles from 2023, brought to you by Bristol University Press and Policy Press.…Read more

Listen to authors and editors talking about the key social challenges of the moment in our top ten Transforming Society podcast episodes from 2023.…Read more