Blog Archive for April 2021

In this weeks blog, Dr David Scott, senior lecturer in Criminology at the Open University, discusses the history of prisons. If interested in this topic, why not listen to Dr David Scott on the BBC Radio 4 Programme ‘Prison Break’ (episode 4, How did it come to this?) on May 14^th, 2021.  To listen to this episode, see: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000vz86

Andy Diaper is an independent social researcher. He works with vulnerable and excluded people within the community. His main research interests are groups that are excluded, harmed, and criminalised, including indigenous populations. His most recent blog at how cultural genocide has led to the Australian indigenous population to be viewed as a ‘criminal other’.

This blog from Professor Joe Sim of Liverpool John Moores University and Professor Steve Tombs of The Open University was also published by the Centre for the Study of Crime, Criminalisation and Social Exclusion: https://ccseljmu.wordpress.com/ 

This week Laura Kelly-Corless, University of Central Lancashire, and Daniel McCulloch, The Open University, write about the d/Deaf prisoner experience. This article has been republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.