Justice Focus

28/11/2023

🎙️3 Episodes recorded so far!
Search on any podcast platform for Series 1.
Also link in bioooo.

17/05/2023

Come & study with me!
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Enhance your criminal justice knowledge and develop your criminological imagination. You’ll focus on global contemporary crime and justice-related challenges.

You will study topics such as:
🔹international and law
🔹contemporary criminological theory
🔹criminological ethnography
🔹technological developments in criminal justice
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🔹violent crime

Our BSc Criminology degree has been named No.1 in the UK two years in a row in The Times & The Sunday Times Good University Guide.

🔸Search University of Bath MSc Criminology

03/01/2023

My review of:
Carceral Communities in Latin America: Troubling Prison Worlds in the 21st Century
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31/08/2022

📢New Podcast📢
The inaugural Centre for Criminology Podcast will be with you soon! 🤩
All episodes designed & produced by the MSc students.
1st episode drops next Tue 6th Sept
Subscribe for free now & never miss an episode! Linktree in bio

20/07/2022

Silly hat day
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06/05/2022

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28/09/2021

Wohoo! The article is out & it’s so no paywall. See linktr.ee in bio 🤓
It’s part of a Special Issue on

We outline the initial ‘just war’ narratives used during Portuguese colonisation and the actions taken by Brazilian elites to justify the maintenance of slavery and continued subjugation of the descendants of the victims of slavery into the 20th century.

We consider Latin American criminology's focus on criminal anthropology and complicity in social Darwinism and eugenics. In doing so, we illustrate the through-line of an emphasis on the rhetoric of war.

21/06/2021

On Wed 23rd June I’ll be speaking Centre for Criminology’s Workshop on ‘Punishment in Global Peripheries: Contemporary Changes and Historical Continuities’.
Dr Sacha Darke & I will be talking about our paper ‘Coloniality, Just War & Carceral Injustice in Brazil’.
Come & join us!
Search ‘Punishment in Global Peripheries’ & register.

27/05/2021

Proud that have launched this initiative. Today I was on the selection committee to put forward possible PhD students from underrepresented backgrounds. Saw some great projects 🤞🏽 hope they get the scholarships!

25/05/2021

The guidance doc that I wrote on behalf of DCAF & is now available in 5 languages.
Read about ‘Places of Deprivation of Liberty & Gender’ in:
🔵 French (new)
⚪️ English
🟢 Arabic
🔴 Georgian
🟡 Spanish

Collection of guidance from the & North on implementing a approach to prisons

Place du dans

16/12/2020

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.

01/11/2020

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: |  DIGNITY - Danish Institute Against Torture
Omar Phoenix Khan: | | https://www.justicefocus.org/