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S2E34 34: Creating the Demand for Better Crime Policy with Dr Janeille Zorina Matthews
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…
S2E33 33: Parole, Probation & The Pains of Hope with Prof Harry Annison
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,…
S2E32 32: Crime, Harm & the State with Dr Lynne Copson
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…
S2E31 31: The Researcher Wellbeing Project with Dr Tina Skinner
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,…
S2E30 30: Researching Gender Based Violence with Dr Tina Skinner
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…
S2E29 29: The Black Criminology Network with Jen Harris
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…
S2E28 28: Police & Crime Correspondent - Vikram Dodd
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…
S2E27 27: Policing the Night - Dr Nikhaela Wicks
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…
S2E26 26: Postcolonial Policing with Dr Zoha Waseem
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…
S2 Series 2 Preview
Finally, we're back!Announcing Series 2 of Justice Focus. A criminology podcast amplifying the voices shaping justice.Each episode features in-depth conversations with people doing the work—whether…
25: Prof. Ben Crewe - Understanding Life Imprisonment
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…
24: Khatuna Tsintsadze - The Zahid Mubarek Trust & Race Equality in Prisons
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…
23: Prof. Neil Chakraborti - Making Hate Crime Studies Accessible & Impactful
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…
22: Dr David Skarbek - Prison Gangs & 'The Puzzle of Prison Order'
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,…
21: Prof. Alison Liebling - Appreciative Inquiry and the moral performance of prisons
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…
20: Catherine Heard - Comparative Criminology & the World Prison Research Programme
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…
19: Prof. Kerry Carrington - Southern Criminology & Women's Police Stations
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…
18: Kanika Samuels-Wortley - Race, Diversion & Police Selection Bias in Canada
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,…
17: Dr Jamie Bennett - Against Prison Management
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…
16: Dr Martin Glynn - Subverting the Rules of Academia & Talking Truth to History
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…
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