How listening to convicts can transform justice
06/14/24 • 39 min
Convict’s voices have traditionally been ignored and marginalised in scholarship and policy debates, but how can we improve if we don’t learn from these lived experiences?
Richard Kemp speaks with Jeffrey Ian Ross, author of ‘Introduction to Convict Criminology’, about why listening to convicts is essential to positively impacting corrections, criminology, criminal justice, and policy making.
They discuss the origins of convict criminology as a discipline, the importance, and difficulty, of receiving higher education during incarceration, and the policy decisions that are necessary to improve our criminal justice systems.
Jeffrey Ian Ross is Professor in the School of Criminal Justice and Research Fellow with the Center for International and Comparative Law and the Schaefer Center for Public Policy at the University of Baltimore. Follow him on Twitter: @jeffreyianross.
Find out more about the book: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/introduction-to-convict-criminology
The full transcript of the podcast is available here: https://www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2024/06/14/podcast-how-listening-to-convicts-can-transform-justice/
Timestamps:
1:41 - What was the literature on prisons before convict criminology, and what does convict criminology do differently?
4:08 - What is prison life like and why is it important for us to understand it?
7:08 - Was convict criminology 'rocking the boat' when it came to be?
9:31 - Education in prisons is important, so how did it end up in the state it's in?
15:56 - What's the financial support for inmates doing education?
18:56 - How achievable is it for educated inmates to write academically about their experiences?
25:30 - What do you say to people who disagree with inmates being educated?
28:35 - What are the impacts of race, gender and class, and what are the dangers of activism?
32:22 - How does convict criminology want to influence policy?
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Convict’s voices have traditionally been ignored and marginalised in scholarship and policy debates, but how can we improve if we don’t learn from these lived experiences?
Richard Kemp speaks with Jeffrey Ian Ross, author of ‘Introduction to Convict Criminology’, about why listening to convicts is essential to positively impacting corrections, criminology, criminal justice, and policy making.
They discuss the origins of convict criminology as a discipline, the importance, and difficulty, of receiving higher education during incarceration, and the policy decisions that are necessary to improve our criminal justice systems.
Jeffrey Ian Ross is Professor in the School of Criminal Justice and Research Fellow with the Center for International and Comparative Law and the Schaefer Center for Public Policy at the University of Baltimore. Follow him on Twitter: @jeffreyianross.
Find out more about the book: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/introduction-to-convict-criminology
The full transcript of the podcast is available here: https://www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2024/06/14/podcast-how-listening-to-convicts-can-transform-justice/
Timestamps:
1:41 - What was the literature on prisons before convict criminology, and what does convict criminology do differently?
4:08 - What is prison life like and why is it important for us to understand it?
7:08 - Was convict criminology 'rocking the boat' when it came to be?
9:31 - Education in prisons is important, so how did it end up in the state it's in?
15:56 - What's the financial support for inmates doing education?
18:56 - How achievable is it for educated inmates to write academically about their experiences?
25:30 - What do you say to people who disagree with inmates being educated?
28:35 - What are the impacts of race, gender and class, and what are the dangers of activism?
32:22 - How does convict criminology want to influence policy?
Intro music:
Cold by yoitrax | @yoitrax
Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com
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How lurkers influence the online world
Lurking, or reading the comments in an online group without writing a comment, is a common practice. But what does it mean to be a lurker?
In this podcast host Jess Miles speaks with Gina Sipley, Associate Professor of English at SUNY Nassau Community College and author of Just Here for the Comments. Gina challenges our assumptions about lurking, revealing it to be a complex and valuable form of online engagement.
They talk about the psychology of online behaviour, how lurking can be a form of resistance and social activism and the surprising value lurking brings to the world.
Gina Sipley is Associate Professor of English at SUNY Nassau Community College. Sipley is a first-generation college graduate. Follow her on Twitter: @GSipley.
Find out more about the book: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/just-here-for-the-comments
The full transcript of the podcast is available here: https://www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2024/05/22/podcast-how-lurkers-influence-the-online-world/
Timestamps:
1:09 - Where did the title, 'Just Here for the Comments', come from?
2:19 - Who did you study, and on what platforms?
8:30 - Why does lurking have such a bad rep?
11:35 - What grassroot actions are lurkers taking, and how does it challenge traditional ideas of online participation and activism?
17:56 - Lurking as a privileged act
20:11 - What value does lurking bring?
23:36 - Who would you like to read the book, and what impact do you hope it will have?
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Danny Dorling on the UK election and hope for change
Danny Dorling and Jess Miles talk about his concept of peak injustice - that injustice and inequality are now so bad in the UK that it might just be that they can't get worse.
In advance of 4 July, they talk about Keir Starmer and what the Labour party may offer, why higher taxes aren't a burden, how fear wrecks societies and the data that gives us hope that getting down from the top of the mountain of injustice might be possible.
Danny Dorling is Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Peter’s College. He is a patron of RoadPeace, Comprehensive Future and Heeley City Farm. He has published over 50 books, including the best-selling Peak Inequality: Britain’s Ticking Timebomb (2018) and Injustice: Why Social Inequality Still Persists (2014). Follow him on Twitter: @dannydorling.
Find out more about the book: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/peak-injustice
The full transcript of the podcast is available here: https://www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2024/06/21/podcast-danny-dorling-on-the-uk-election-and-hope-for-change/
Timestamps:
01:39 - What are the signs things might be getting less unequal?
5:33 - How far are the parties going to tackle injustice, and are there any standout policies?
9:59 - Why are people afraid of tax rises?
13:01 - What are individuals going to have to accept in order to move away from this peak injustice?
20:57 - When discussing what the next government have to do to move us away from peak injustice you said they have to want to do it. What did you mean by that?
28:40 - What is the important role the left have to play in this election?
33:09 - What do you want people, including the new government, to take from your book, 'Peak Injustice'?
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