
Tag: crime


Analysis: There Is Zero Evidence of a Shoplifting ‘Epidemic’
Ell Folan

Analysis: The UK Has Its Own Mass Incarceration Crisis
Ell Folan

Opinion: Sweden Was Never the Progressive Haven You Thought It Was
Christian Christensen

Feature: How to Intervene in a Police Stop
UK Cop Watch

Report: Are Random Police Drug Swabs Legal?
James Greig

Long Read: Forget ‘Liberté’ – 17th-Century Indigenous Americans Knew a Lot More About Freedom Than Their French Colonisers
David Graeber and David Wengrow

Analysis: Do the Police Actually Solve Crime?
Aaron Bastani

Novara Live: Policing Bill Sparks Riots in Bristol

Novara Live: Outrage at Met Police Handling of Sarah Everard Vigil

Downstream: Make America Normal Again. Interview With Adam Tooze
Joe Biden is President-elect of the United States. But what might his Presidency mean for working class Americans, US foreign policy and perceived national decline? Does his victory represent a return to political ‘normality’ after 4 years of the Trump White House? And what might Trump’s legacy be within the Republican Party? Joining Aaron Bastani […]

Long Read: Why Do the Police Exist?
Connor Woodman
Long read: When and why were police forces first invented? Connor Woodman takes a look - and argues that far from protecting communities from ‘crime’, the police’s role has always been to control and discipline the working class.

The Lockdown: Safety First: Sex Work and the Criminal Justice System

The Lockdown: Profits and the Prison Industry

The Lockdown: Policing by Consent?

The Lockdown: Prison Island: Prison Expansion in the UK
Back with a new series, hosts Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann speak to Nicole, a researcher at Corporate Watch about the British government’s plans for prison expansion, how this will impact people inside and outside prisons and how communities across the country are resisting.

The Lockdown: “Just Paint the Walls Pink”: Gender, Prison and Carceral Feminism
Oonagh Ryder speaks to Mo Mansfield, a social justice campaigner and women’s sector professional. They discuss what carceral feminism is, how it has helped to expand and entrench the criminal justice system and how we can move beyond this towards an abolitionist feminism.
