Tag: crime
Analysis: There Is Zero Evidence of a Shoplifting ‘Epidemic’
by Ell Folan
Analysis: The UK Has Its Own Mass Incarceration Crisis
by Ell Folan
Opinion: Sweden Was Never the Progressive Haven You Thought It Was
by Christian Christensen
Feature: How to Intervene in a Police Stop
by UK Cop Watch
Report: Are Random Police Drug Swabs Legal?
by James Greig
Long Read: Forget ‘Liberté’ – 17th-Century Indigenous Americans Knew a Lot More About Freedom Than Their French Colonisers
by David Graeber and David Wengrow
Analysis: Do the Police Actually Solve Crime?
by 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?
by 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.