Justice, law and human rights
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
Clive Sealey, author of 'Applying Social Policy to Criminal Justice Practice', shows how criminal justice practice must move away from a narrow emphasis on crime and criminality, to a wider focus that attends to the social policy needs of individuals, groups and communities.…Read more
David C. Lane and Kristen M. Budd, co-editors of 'Beyond Bars', consider what has led to the dire state of mass incarceration in the US. …Read more
The authors of a recent article for the Journal of Gender-Based Violence conducted surveys with festival attendees to see the extent of safety at music festivals. These findings revealed that women consistently reported a distressing normalisation of unwelcome attention, harassment, invasive touching and violence.…Read more
Warren Chin, author of 'War, Technology and the State', looks at the effect of the fourth industrial revolution on the relationship between war and the state.…Read more
Tom Boland and Jody Moore-Ponce consider the limits of self-examination and ‘confessional critique’ in recent antiracist writing. This liberal, individually focused critique rarely translates into effective political action. …Read more
Louise Ashley, author of 'Highly Discrimination', explains why changing the City’s misogynistic culture is particularly challenging.…Read more
Sunit Bagree explains how inclusive urbanisation is all very well, but only if accessibility is affordable for the urban poor, and their human rights are considered. …Read more
Julia Margaret Zulver reveals how the mothers of the 100,000 missing children in Mexico mark Mother’s Day.…Read more
On the anniversary of the Electoral Administration Act 2006, Henry Tam charts the insidious moves by Conservative-led governments to undermine democratic participation. …Read more