Law

In this practitioner briefing, Craig Barlow, author of 'The Complexities of Human Trafficking and Exploitation', shows how professionals in law enforcement, social work, education, and healthcare face challenges in addressing exploitation and trafficking due to oversimplified protocols. …Read more

The budget and resources that have been dedicated to combatting terrorism this century are staggering. But has it worked? In this episode, George Miller talks to Leonie B. Jackson about the exceptional measures that states have taken in recent decades in reaction to terrorist threats which they often portray as existential.…Read more

Rob Faure Walker, author of 'Love and the Market', recognises that Love is greater than the market economy and our alienated modern selves leads us to slow down and pay attention to the world.…Read more

Racial justice is never far from the headlines, but, although the ideals of the legal system such as fairness and equality seem allied to the struggle, campaigners have been all too often let down by the system. In this episode Jess Miles and Bharat Malkani talk through cases like those of the Colston Four and Shamima Begum to explore this paradox and establish where change is possible.…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

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

Jack Levin and Julie B. West, authors of 'Covert Violence', consider how covert violence might initially present as an accidental or self-inflicted cause of death. Such cases receive little publicity and are often not properly investigated. …Read more

In this episode of the Transforming Society podcast, Jess Miles speaks with Alison Young about the growth of governmental power and erosion of checks and balances over the last four years. …Read more

In this episode of the Transforming Society podcast, Steve Cooke talks with George Miller about how the field of animal rights evolved – and continues to evolve - as advances in the scientific understanding of animals’ lives expand the rights claims made on their behalf. …Read more

Anne-Marie Greenslade, contributor to 'Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking', examines the government’s continued attempt to paint migrants as exploitative and not genuine victims of modern slavery and human trafficking. …Read more