Justice Focus: The Podcast

A criminology podcast that focuses on the latest exciting projects happening in criminal justice all over the world. It brings together practitioners, front line staff, NGO workers, academics - basically all those people working passionately and compassionately in criminal justice systems.

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Series 2

Can changing the story we tell about crime actually change the policies that follow? In this episode, Dr Omar Phoenix Khan speaks with Dr Janeille Zorina Matthews, multidisciplinary criminal justice scholar, Deputy Dean, and Lecturer at the Faculty of Law at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, about her work at the intersections of criminology, law, storytelling, and social justice in the Anglophone Caribbean.

Dr. Matthews has written extensively on sexual violence in Antigua and Barbuda, examining how a cluster of high-profile cases in the early 2000s shaped public consciousness, behavioural patterns, and media representations of crime for years that followed. She reflects on what that moment revealed about how crime narratives form — and how reframing the discourse around sexual violence can open space for more constructive, survivor-centred conversations.

The conversation turns to Dr. Matthews' work on narrative change and crime policy, drawing on her article 'Creating the Demand for Better Crime Policy', in which she argues that Qualitative Frame Analysis (QFA) can be used as a methodological tool to interrogate "tough on crime" rhetoric — exposing how politicians, media, and other actors manufacture public consent for punitive approaches that often misrepresent the true nature of crime. Shifting those frames, she argues, is essential to creating the conditions for more effective and humane policies.

The episode also explores the persistence of colonial legacies in penal practices across the Anglophone Caribbean, the growing importance of Southern and decolonial criminologies in reimagining the discipline, and how Dr. Matthews' contribution to the UNDP's first Caribbean Human Development Report and her leadership of the UWI Rights Advocacy Project connect research to real struggles for human rights and decarceration.

This episode is for anyone interested in criminology, crime policy reform, the politics of narrative, and how the Caribbean is contributing vital new perspectives to global debates about crime and punishment.

Read Dr. Matthews' work:

• Matthews, J. Z. (2020). 'Creating the demand for better crime policy: Qualitative Frame Analysis as a vehicle for social transformation.' The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, 59(3), 325–342. ⁠https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12386⁠

• Matthews, J. Z. & Robinson, T. (2019). 'Modern Vagrancy in the Anglophone Caribbean.' Caribbean Journal of Criminology, 1(4), 123–154.

• Matthews, J. Z. (2017). 'Social Constructions of Crime in Antigua and Barbuda.' In Joosen & Bailey (eds), Caribbean Crime & Criminal Justice: Impacts of Post-Colonialism and Gender on Crime. Routledge. ⁠https://www.routledge.com/Caribbean-Crime-and-Criminal-Justice-Impacts-of-Post-Colonialism-and-Gender-on-Crime/Joosen-Bailey/p/book/9780367888534⁠

• UWI Rights Advocacy Project: ⁠https://www.cavehill.uwi.edu/law/staff-profile/dr-janeille-zorina-matthews/⁠

Dr. Janeille Zorina Matthews | University of the West Indies, Cave Hill

Keywords: Caribbean criminology, crime policy, narrative change, Qualitative Frame Analysis, colonial legacies, rape, sexual violence, decarceration, Southern criminology, Anglophone Caribbean, penal reform, storytelling for social justice, tough on crime, UWI Rights Advocacy Project, UNDP.

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What does it mean to hope when thesystem has already decided your fate?

In this episode, Dr Omar Phoenix Khan speaks with Professor Harry Annison from Southampton Law School, about penal politics, the families of indeterminate-sentenced prisoners, and why storytelling is at the heart of how criminal justice systems change, or fail to.

Harry is one of the leading scholars of penal policy in England and Wales. His work sits at the intersection of criminology, law and political science, and draws on hundreds of interviewswith senior policymakers, practitioners, families, and people in the justice system. He has collaborated with the Prison Reform Trust and the Howard League for Penal Reform, and has completed multiple ESRC-funded projects including Rehabilitating Probation, a major longitudinal study of the re-nationalisation of probation services in England and Wales. His OUP monograph, Dangerous Politics, remains the definitive account of the politics of the Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence.

In this conversation, Harry reflects on what drew him to parole and probation, the differences and unexpected similarities between interviewing elite policymakers and researching the families of those they govern. The episode focuses on his co-authored paper with Prof Rachel Condry, 'The Pains of Hope' (British Journal of Criminology, 2022), which examines the experiences of families of IPP-sentenced prisoners and their often extraordinary campaigns for justice.Harry explains how a sentence officially abolished in 2012 continues to imprison thousands, and what it costs the people who love them. The conversation also explores a thread running through much of Harry's work: the power of narrative and storyline in shaping, and sometimes distorting, criminaljustice policy. Harry also reflects candidly on his approach to writing and his experience as an editor across several leading journals.

This episode will interest anyone working in or thinking about penal reform, indeterminate sentencing, probation, policymaking, or the human costs of criminal justice.

Professor Harry Annison | SouthamptonLaw School

Key works discussed: Annison, H. & Condry, R. (2022). The painsof hope: families of indeterminate sentenced prisoners and political campaigning by lay citizens. British Journal of Criminology, 62(5), 1252–1269. doi:10.1093/bjc/azac039      Annison, H. (2015). Dangerous Politics: Risk, Political Vulnerability, and Penal Policy. Oxford University Press.

Annison, H., Burke, L., Carr, N., Millings, M., Robinson, G. & Surridge, E. (2023). Making good? A study of how seniorpolicy makers narrate policy reversal. British Journal of Criminology. doi:10.1093/bjc/azad054

Annison, H. (2022). The role of storylines in penal policy change. Punishment & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/1462474521989533

Podcast researched & hosted by ⁠⁠Dr Omar Phoenix Khan⁠⁠,University of Bath. Theme music by ⁠⁠SHEZ⁠⁠.

Why are some harms defined as crimes, while others are not? And who gets to decide?

In this episode, Omar sits down with Dr Lynne Copson, Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the Open University, to explore the relationship between criminology and zemiology (the study of social harm), and to dig into her new edited collection, Crime, Harm and the State, co-edited with Dr Eleni Dimou and Dr Steve Tombs, published by Bristol University Press (2026).

This collection disrupts the boundaries of conventional criminology, offering a bold and innovative exploration of crime, state power and social harm across historical and global contexts. Bridging zemiology, governmentality studies,and decolonial theory, it examines how the colonial roots and ongoing dynamics of global capitalism perpetuate harm — particularly in the Global South. Through case studies spanning tourism, drugs, non-human animals, food, ecology, minoritized groups and migration, the collection asks whose experiences of harm are acknowledged, and how harm may be resisted.

We focus especially on Dr Copson's own chapter, Redrawing Borders: Crime, Harm and the State, in which she interrogates the ways in which scholarly knowledge is complicit in drawing borders and carving up the world — and argues that this isfar from a problem of the past. What are the unintended consequences of continuing with status quo scholarship?

Along the way, we also get into the necessity of hope, what utopia means, the politics of citations, and a slight obsession with avocados...

Key texts covered in our conversation:

Copson, L., Dimou, E. & Tombs, S. (eds.) (2026) Crime, Harm and the State. Bristol: Bristol University Press.

(We discussed Charter 14: Redrawing Borders: Crime Harm and the State)

Copson, L. (2022) ‘Finding hope in hopeless times’, in van Klink, B., Soniewicka, M. and van den Broeke, L. (eds.) Utopian Thinking in Law, Politics, Architecture and Technology. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 19–37.DOI: 10.4337/9781803921402.00007  

Copson, L. (2021) 'Crime,Harm and Justice: The Utopia of Harm and Realising Justice in a "Good Society"', in Davies, P., Leighton, P. & Wyatt, T. (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Social Harm. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72408-5_13

We also mention:

Alatas, S.F. (2024), The Coloniality of Knowledge and the Autonomous Knowledge Tradition. Sociology Compass, 18: e13256. https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.13256

Dimou, E. (2021) Decolonizing Southern Criminology: What Can the “Decolonial Option” Tell Us About Challenging the Modern/Colonial Foundations of Criminology? CriticalCriminology, 29, pp. 431–450. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-021-09579-9

Podcast researched & hosted by ⁠Dr Omar Phoenix Khan⁠, University of Bath. Theme music by ⁠SHEZ⁠.

Welcome back to part two of our conversation with Dr Tina Skinner.

In the first episode, we explored Tina’s powerful work on gender-based violence and asked a vital question: How do we do ethical, sustainable research in such a heavy, emotionally charged field?

In this second half, we shift gears to focus on Tina’s latest initiative, The Researcher Wellbeing Project — a project that dares to ask the questions most academics have never been invited to consider. What does it really mean to work day after day with emotionally challenging material? And what is that work doing to the researchers themselves?

Tina’s mission is clear: to improve the wellbeing of those carrying the emotional weight of this research. And she has a plan to make that happen.

We pick up our conversation with Tina reflecting — with her trademark honesty and vulnerability — on her autoethnographic work. From there, we dive into the realities that sit at the sharp intersections of gender, disability, and academic expectations.

And finally, we zoom in on the Researcher Wellbeing Project itself: what it’s uncovering, why it matters, and how it might just change the way we care for the people doing some of society’s most emotionally demanding academic work.

Researcher Wellbeing Project

Project Website

Skinner, T., Brance, K., Halligan, S. et al. Coping with Emotionally Challenging Research: Developing a Strategic Approach to Researcher Wellbeing. J Acad Ethics 23, 2559–2583 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10805-025-09665-5

Also mentioned:

Skinner, T. (2011). Dyslexia, mothering and work: intersecting identities, reframing, ‘drowning’ and resistance. Disability & Society, 26(2), 125–137. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2011.543859

Podcast researched & hosted by Dr Omar Phoenix Khan, University of Bath. Theme music by SHEZ.

Dr Tina Skinner is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Bath, where she has been working since 2002. She is one of the founders of the Criminology Degree at the University of Bath,and a founder of the Special Interest Group on Disability, Work, Family and Care within the Work and Families Researcher Network (USA).

In 2020, Dr Skinner was invited to give evidence to the Women and Equalities Committee of the House of Commons inquiry ‘Unequal Impact: Coronavirus and the Impact on People with Protected Characteristics', and then again in 2021 at the Labour Party Conference, to assist them in understanding the gender/dis-ability pay gap.

In relation to GBV, Dr Skinner is known for:

• her research with victim-survivors of rape and their experiences of SARCs (Sexual Assault Referral Centres),

• She edited the book Researching Gender Violence

• and has worked with colleagues to develop a strategic response to gender based violence at University.

• And most recently, she has developed a protocol for the ethical supervision of gender based violence research

In this part one of my interview with Dr Skinner we will focus on her thoughts about and experiences of ethically conducting gender based violence research.

In part 2, we will turn to consider the impact of this work on the researcher, acknowledging that we are not research-making automatons and instead consider how we can improve the well-being of researchers working on trauma. I think that we all can take a lot from both episodes.

Skinner, T., & Taylor, H. (2008). “Being Shut Out in the Dark”: Young Survivors’ Experiences of Reporting a Sexual Offence: Young Survivors’ Experiences of Reporting a Sexual Offence. Feminist Criminology, 4(2), 130-150. https://doi.org/10.1177/1557085108326118 (Original work published 2009)

Tina Skinner, MarianneHester, Ellen Malos (2013) ResearchingGender Violence. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis

Jen Harris is the founder & Co-Director of The Black Criminology Network, launched in 2020 to assist Criminologists of Black heritage to obtain the relevant opportunities and support to succeed in their careers. Jen is a Criminology PhD Researcher at the University of Birmingham, UK. In this episode, Omar chats to her about The Black Criminology Network and her hopes for the group, as well as her PhD research, which uses Critical Race Theory to examine community policing in the West Midlands.

Jen has around a decade’s worth of experience working and volunteering across the Criminal Justice system, and also founded CrimiTalk (2016) to fulfil her passion for supporting others through their Criminology journey.

Jen’s achievements include winning multiple awards, contributing to conferences and educational exchanges, and sharing expertise on an episode of MTV’s True Life Crime UK.

How is crime reported — and who gets to shape the narrative? In this episode, Dr. Omar Phoenix Khan speaks with Vikram Dodd, Police and Crime Correspondent for The Guardian, about the challenges and responsibilities of covering crime, policing, and justice in the UK.

With a career spanning some of the most significant moments in recent British criminal justice history — from the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence and the landmark Macpherson Report, to reporting on terrorist attacks and the state’s security responses — Vikram reflects on how journalism can hold institutions to account, and rthe unique pressures that come with reporting on the police.

The conversation takes a close look at the Metropolitan Police, a force at the centre of much of his recent reporting, and explores broader questions about the role of media today. How much freedom does a journalist have to express their perspective when covering sensitive topics? What does impartiality mean when evidence points to systemic failures? And how has the rise of social media both complicated and enriched crime reporting — simultaneously driving clicks and amplifying public scrutiny of police misconduct?

Finally, Vikram shares what keeps him motivated in a beat that often involves deeply troubling subject matter, and why independent journalism on crime and justice is more vital than ever.

This episode will resonate with students of criminology, sociology, and media studies, as well as anyone interested in the power of journalism to expose, challenge, and make sense of how justice is pursued in the UK.

What does it mean to police the night — and how does race shape who gets in, who gets excluded, and who decides? In this episode, Dr. Omar Phoenix Khan speaks with Dr. Nikhaela Wicks, Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Kent, about her ethnographic research on the night-time economy in the South of England.

Based on a year of fieldwork with police officers, nightclub door staff, and others working in nightlife, Dr. Wicks shows how racial boundaries are drawn and enforced in spaces that are supposed to be about leisure and celebration. From discriminatory door policies to the paradox of Black consumers being both “wanted” for their cultural presence and “unwanted” as perceived risks, her research unpacks how racism plays out in subtle and not-so-subtle ways after dark.

The discussion also turns to criminology as a discipline, where Dr. Wicks argues that race and racism are still treated as “blind spots.” She reflects on the whiteness of criminology teaching and curricula, and shares how students and educators are pushing for a more inclusive and critical future.

This conversation will interest anyone curious about nightlife, policing, race, or the future of criminology itself.

How do histories of empire shape the everyday realities of policing today? In this episode, Dr. Omar Phoenix Khan speaks with Dr. Zoha Waseem, Associate Professor at the University of Warwick and Co-Coordinator of the Urban Violence Research Network (UVRN), about her research on policing, security, and urban violence in Pakistan.

Drawing on over 200 interviews with serving and retired officers, archival work, case studies, and policy analysis, Dr. Waseem’s ethnography explores how police in Karachi navigate the contradictory roles of enforcing state power while also being victims of structural violence themselves. Many officers come from the same impoverished communities they patrol, embodying both oppressor and oppressed, and are often forced to choose between starvation and predation.

The conversation also reflects on the enduring influence of British colonial structures in shaping postcolonial policing practices, as well as on what counts as “success” in this kind of research and what meaningful impact might look like.

This episode will interest anyone concerned with policing, security, urban violence, and the legacies of colonialism in the Global South and beyond.

Series 1

Between 2003 and 2016, the average tariff for murder in England & Wales increased by almost 40% to over 20yrs of imprisonment. It's clear that as a society, we have become desensitised to these huge sentences. In this episode, Professor Ben Crewe chats to Omar about his recent book, ‘Life Imprisonment from Young Adulthood’ (coauthored with Dr Susie Hulley, & Dr Serena Wright), which analyses the experiences of prisoners in England & Wales sentenced when relatively young to very long life sentences. Ben also discusses his own professional journey and introduces the new academic journal Incarceration.

This is the last episode of the series! Thank you so much to everyone involved and to all those who have listened and shared your feedback!

The whole point of the podcast is to help spread the positive impact, so please share this episode (or any of the others) with someone who you think may like it!

Ben Crewe is Professor of Penology & Criminal Justice, and Deputy Director of the Prisons Research Centre, at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.

Khatuna Tsintsadze is the Co-director of The Zahid Mubarek Trust (ZMT), an independent national charity founded in 2009 by the family of 19-year-old Zahid Mubarek who was murdered by his racist cellmate on the morning scheduled for his release from Feltham Young Offender Institution, London, UK.

Khatuna chats to Omar about Zahid's legacy, her aspirations for the Trust and her personal approach to the heavy topics inherent in human rights work.

During the episode, we mention 'A Record of Our Own' campaign, which was launched by the ZMT in June 2020. It aims to understand the impact of Covid-19 on prisoners from Black, Asian and minority ethnic background, including people from Gypsy, Roma and Traveller groups.

Khatuna joined the ZMT in 2011 having previously spent over fifteen years working in the non-governmental sector, both nationally and internationally. Prior to that, she held a senior position within a national human rights organisation in Georgia, providing legal aid and advocacy to the victims of human rights abuses and discrimination. In parallel, Khatuna worked as a human rights expert on a number of international projects led by the OSCE/ODIHR, Council of Europe and the European Commission.

Khatuna Tsintsadze | @k_tsintsadze | ZMT Website | @ZMTRUST

Professor Neil Chakraborti chats to Omar about his career in Criminology and Hate Crime Studies. They discuss recent 'trigger events' that have caused increases in hate crimes and the intersection between academic study and real-world impact: how universities can work more closely with practitioners. Neil's new book, co-authored with Stevie-Jade Hardy Blood, Threats and Fears: The Hidden Worlds of Hate Crime Victims is also discussed as an example of working in an accessible way.

Neil Chakraborti is a Professor of Criminology, Head of School and Director of the Centre for Hate Studies at the University of Leicester. He has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed publications within the field of hate crime and has been commissioned by numerous funding bodies to lead research studies which have shaped hate crime policy and scholarship. He is series editor of Palgrave Hate Studies; Chair of the Research Advisory Group at the Howard League for Penal Reform; and sits on the Advisory Boards of Tell MAMA, the International Network for Hate Studies and the British Society of Criminology Hate Crime Network.

Dr David Skarbek is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Political Theory Project at Brown University. He is the author of The Social Order of the Underworld (Oxford, 2014), which won the APSA's William Riker Award for best book in political economy and the Outstanding Book Award from International Association for the Study of Organized Crime.

His new book is called ‘The puzzle of prison order: Why life behind bars varies around the world’.

In this episode, David chats to Omar about prison gangs in the USA and his award-winning book, as well as his new book examining prison governance internationally. As well as asking how prisoners govern, discussions also cover transgender prison units, and prisoner of war camps, as well as thoughts on defunding the police.

Ep.21: Alison Liebling is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Institute of Criminology’s Prisons Research Centre. Alison has recently been awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship to embark on significant further research and took a moment to reflect on her career-to-date with Omar. 

Alison's work includes a series of successful books and publications on several topics including suicides and suicide attempts among adult prisoners, public-private sector comparisons, the work and role of prison officers, and the nature and quality of staff-prisoner relationships.

As well as reflecting on her inspirations and how she came to 'appreciative inquiry' as a research method, Alison discusses three of her papers, including some past and some present work:

Paper 1: Women in our own Right or ‘Honorary Men’? Reflections on a Professional Life in Prisons Research

Paper 2: Finding George Eliot In Prison: Reflections On Its Moral Life

Paper 3: Moral performance, inhuman and degrading treatment and prison pain

Prof. Alison Liebling | @AlisonLiebling | @PrisonsResearch | https://www.prc.crim.cam.ac.uk/directory/liebling 

Ep.20: Catherine Heard is a senior research fellow at ICPR - the Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research, based at Birkbeck, University of London. In this episode, she talks with Omar about ICPR’s World Prison Research Programme, which builds on the World Prison Brief, ICPR's online database providing details of the prison systems of over 220 independent countries and dependent territories.

Catherine discusses the real-world application of comparative criminology including two notable instances where ICPR data was directly used at the highest level - once where outgoing President Barak Obama referenced ICPR work and also when Catherine had to  fact-check the Brazilian Minister of Justice and Public Security, Sérgio Fernando Moro.

Key Publications Discussed: 

- Understanding and reducing the use of imprisonment in ten countries

- Towards a health-informed approach to penal reform? Evidence from ten countries

Catherine Heard | @ICPRtweet | @ICPSLONDON | https://www.icpr.org.uk/

Ep.19: Kerry Carrington is a Professor at the School of Justice in the Faculty of Law at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

In this episode, Kerry chats to Omar about the paradigm shift that is ‘Southern Criminology’, which exposes dominant forms of knowledge production as distinctly Northern/Western and challenges their claims of universality.

Kerry also discusses her preference for co-authoring, the numerous David & Goliath battles that she has taken on, and her passion for open access – ending with a call to action to aid the democratisation of knowledge.

We discuss the recent paper, Carrington, K., Guala, N., Puyol, M. V., & Sozzo, M. (2020), which uses the Southern Criminology paradigm to explore How Women’s Police Stations Empower Women, Widen Access to Justice and Prevent Gender Violence

Prof. Kerry Carrington | @CarringtonKL| Preventing Gender Violence | International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy

Ep. 18: Kanika Samuels-Wortley is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Criminology & Criminal Justice at Carleton University in Canada.

Kanika specialises in race and racism, youth delinquency, policing, corrections, and critical race theory. Her current research explores how perceptions and experiences with racial discrimination by law enforcement officials may contribute to victimization and offending among Black and Indigenous youth, thus maintaining their oppression and marginalization in Canadian society. She chats to Omar about her recent paper:

Youthful Discretion: Police Selection Bias in Access to Pre-Charge Diversion Programs in Canada. Race and Justice (2019)

Kanika Samuels-Wortley: kanika.samuelswortley@carleton.ca | @KanikaSamuels

Ep.17: Dr Jamie Bennett has a huge wealth of experience in senior management positions across a range of specialised prison settings. These include as Governor of high-security prison HMP Long Lartin,  and as Governor of HMP Grendon, the only prison across England and Wales to operate entirely as a series of therapeutic communities, among many others. 

Today Jamie is the Deputy Director of the Operational Security Group for Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service, AND also a research associate at Oxford University’s Centre for Criminology AND editor of the Prison Service Journal. He has published over 100 articles and in this episode he talks with Omar about his journey through prison management and how he has come to question managerialism in prison. He also talks about prisons in the media, his role in Gold Command response to COVID-19 and getting his hands dirty in search of real-world impact.

Extract from paper: Against Prison Management

Dr Jamie Bennett: @drjamiebennett | Prison Service Journal

Ep. 16: Dr Martin Glynn is a Critical Race Criminologist at Birmingham City University – but that does not come close to telling the full story. Martin is a writer, a dramatist, a data storyteller, the Writer in Residence at the National Justice Museum, and much more besides.

In this episode he speaks to Omar about his alternative outlook to working within Criminal Justice, how he is able to produce so much work – academically and creatively – all without compromising on his goals. He also discusses the 'BME attainment gap' at universities and navigating white space.

Dr Martin Glynn: @msoulfires

Ep 15: Nina Champion is Director of the Criminal Justice Alliance (CJA), a coalition of over 160 member organisations working towards a fairer and more effective criminal justice system. In this episode, Nina talks with Omar about her vision for the CJA and about steps towards reform – especially in the areas of systemic racism in policing and the valuing the contribution of those with lived experience.

CJA New report: Twenty one years after Macpherson Report, systemic racism in policing continues

Nina Champion: @ninachampioncja | Criminal Justice Alliance @cjalliance | http://criminaljusticealliance.org/

Ep. 14: Dr Hannah Graham is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, University of Stirling. She talks with Omar about 'pracademia' and being close to both the practitioner and academic worlds.  

Hannah talks about her book: ‘Rehabilitation Work: Supporting Desistance and Recovery’, and as an expert in electronic monitoring, she gives her take on the use of technology in reaction to COVID-19 about the time she wore a tag herself!

Dr Hannah Graham: @DrHannahGraham | University Profile

Ep. 13: Andrew M. Jefferson is a senior researcher at DIGNITY the Danish Institute Against Torture. For the past two decades, he has been studying and writing about prisons and prison reform processes in the global South with a focus on countries undergoing transition. He aims to contribute to social scientific understandings of the conditions under which torture and inhumane treatment thrive with a view in the end to transforming such conditions and making the world a safer place for all. In this episode, he discusses two upcoming papers:

1) Prison Reform and Torture Prevention under Compromised Circumstances.

2) Prison Ethnography in the pursuit of imponderable knowledge

Andrew M. Jefferson: @AndyMJefferson |  DIGNITY - Danish Institute Against Torture @DignityDK

Ep. 12: Penelope Gibbs has been director of Transform Justice since its foundation and has previously sat as a magistrate in England and run projects for the Prison Reform Trust. In this episode, she discusses two important Transform Justice reports. The first relates to the effectiveness of Virtual Court Hearings: Defendants on video – conveyor belt justice or a revolution in access?

The second & recently released report is about the overuse of Police Custody: 24 hours in police custody — is police detention overused?

We also cover how to reframe thinking about criminal justice to avoid triggering beliefs that hold back reform.

Penelope Gibbs: @PenelopeGibbs2 | http://www.transformjustice.org.uk/

Ep. 11: Dr David Rodríguez Goyes, a Colombian lawyer by training is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Oslo, where he gained his PhD in Criminology. His main field of research is green criminology, with a focus on bio-piracy.

His new book: Southern Green Criminology: A Science to End Ecological Discrimination focuses on the threat the western world poses to the rest of the globe, and how Western-imposed ideas of progress are damaging the planet, especially the southern hemisphere. And on top of that, he also participated in the Colombian peace process.

Dr David Rodríguez Goyes: @DavidRGoyes

Ep. 10: This episode explores Dr David Maguire's recent paper: Vulnerable Prisoner Masculinities in an English Prison.

Masculinity is not a fixed thing. People can and do express their masculinity in many different ways and adapt their performance according to the environment. Rather than focus on the dominant or stereotypical forms of masculinity, Omar is back talking with Dr David Maguire about how men in vulnerable prisoner units adapt and cope.

If you haven't heard it yet, listen to Episode 9, which is Part 1 with David Maguire. If focuses on his personal journey and how an inspirational moment with a committed volunteer sparked a journey in education that would take him from council estate to prison & then to a PhD at Oxford University.

Ep. 9: Men’s prisons – one of the places most associated with a macho identity. In Part 1 of this 2 Part Episode, Omar is joined by Dr David Maguire, an expert in prisoner masculinities, especially the adaptations of those lower in the prison hierarchy.

In this Part 1, we’ll be concentrating on Dave’s personal journey and how an inspirational moment with a committed volunteer sparked a journey in education that would take him from council estate to prison & then to a PhD at Oxford University.

The episode also introduces Dr. Dave's recent paper: Vulnerable Prisoner Masculinities in an English Prison

Dr David Maguire: @Dee0871