Justice, law and human rights
Madelaine Adelman and Eliza Byard, contributors to the Global Agenda for Social Justice, show why stakeholders of all ages and at all levels must address the social problem of anti-LGBTQ+ bias in school communities.…Read more
Lisa White, Jon Burnett and Ida Nafstad relaunch 'Justice, Power and Resistance' with a special issue critically engaging with pandemics, policing and protest. …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
Yên Mai looks at the role of emotions in Vietnamese LGBTQ activism.…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
Kaveri Qureshi and Zubaida Metlo look at how the views and actions of close family members, as well as webs of culture and belief, can shape people’s reasoning through the separation/divorce process.…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
Colin Yeo, author of 'Refugee Law', considers the UK government’s ‘bespoke’ scheme for those fleeing Ukraine in the context of previous responses to refugee crises going back to WW1. …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