Criminal Justice and Policing

In this episode of the Transforming Society podcast, Jess Miles speaks with Malcolm Evans, former Chair of the UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture and author of ‘Tackling Torture: Prevention in Practice’.…Read more

On Transforming Society, we look at National Ugly Mugs and CEO Raven Bowen’s contribution to the government’s consultation on sex-for-rent. The cost-of-living and housing crises have created a perfect storm of conditions ripe for exploitation.…Read more

Victor Porto, Guilherme Benzaquen, Simone Gomes and Roxana Cavalcanti explain how Bolsonaro’s far-right government impacted activism in the Brazilian Amazon. …Read more

Julia Margaret Zulver reveals how the mothers of the 100,000 missing children in Mexico mark Mother’s Day.…Read more

Jessica K. Miller and Rebecca Megson-Smith look at how findings published in The Policing Mind have had a positive impact on working conditions for frontline police officers. …Read more

Rachel Vipond, author of 'A Guide to Prisons and Penal Policy', shares the findings of a report on the ongoing COVID-19 measures in prisons, which offer like scope for rehabilitation.…Read more

In this episode, Chris Cunneen talks about the broad need to defund the police.…Read more

The Media Sigils consider the value of representations of domestic violence in film when so few cases of men’s violence against women get into the news. …Read more

Chris Cunneen, author of 'Defund the Police', regrets the limits of the Casey report proposals and suggests that they follow a well-trodden path of police reformism which leaves the nature of police power unchanged. …Read more

Tim Stevens, author of 'What Is Cybersecurity For?', considers the infinite need for cybersecurity and explains why it’s simply not working. …Read more