Criminology

In this episode, Anna Sergi speaks with Richard Kemp about her book and her background and proximity to the subject. They discuss her childhood growing up on the Aspromonte mountain, the long reach of the 'Ndrangheta and the delicate balance of emotional distance when it comes to analysing such an emotive topic.…Read more

Jade Levell, author of 'Boys, Childhood Domestic Abuse, and Gang Involvement', exposes the link between children engaged in gang violence and an experience of childhood domestic abuse.…Read more

Based on 'Boys, Childhood Domestic Abuse, and Gang Involvement' by Jade Levell, this policy briefing covers key messages and policy recommendations including a dramatic rethink on the ways in which children are supported both during and after an abusive adult perpetrating DVA is present in their lives. …Read more

Sarah Hupp Williamson, author of 'Human Trafficking in the Era of Global Migration', outlines some of the difficulties of assuming that conditions that drive human trafficking are the same everywhere, and that the same solutions can be applied internationally.…Read more

Aaron Pycroft, co-author of 'Redemptive Criminology', re-examines the theological, philosophical and criminological basis for punishment, arguing that it prevents genuine transformation by perpetuating the myth of rehabilitation.…Read more

In this episode, authors Caroline Gorden and Christopher Birkbeck speak with Jess Miles about the social construction of guilt and innocence, people's morbid fascination with violent crime and why a single explanation of a trial verdict is always likely to be insufficient.…Read more

Jessica Miller, author of 'The Policing Mind', calls on us to consider whether we take enough notice of the effect on the minds of police officers of the trauma that they experience on a daily basis. …Read more

Colin Rogers and Ian Pepper look at the mismatch between percentages of minority ethnic groups in the police service when compared to society as a whole, and consider how volunteers in policing could be used to bridge the gap. …Read more

Elizabeth Kiely and Katharina Swirak draw our critical attention to the steady creep of crime-control discourses and logics into so-called social policies, in projects of welfare reform, urban policy making, family interventions and rehabilitation strategies.…Read more

In this podcast episode, Lambros Fatsis and Melayna Lamb talk about how the pandemic has revealed the damaging relationship between public health and public order and explain why we need to explore our assumptions about policing and what it's for…Read more