Criminology

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

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

Alex Stevens, author of 'Drug Policy Constellations' discusses how drug policy actors don’t base their policies on research evidence, but on shared and difficult-to-shift ethical and political commitments. …Read more

Cara Jardine looks at the effect of prison on families, and their limited ability to challenge how they are treated by the justice system .…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

In this episode, Jess Miles speaks with Nick Gibbs about the rise in the use of image and performance enhancing drugs, why people take them and how they get them.…Read more

Megan Crossley shines a light on conditions for women in immigration detention centres, who are often erased from the immigration narrative.…Read more

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

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