The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies currently runs two regular monthly Zoom programmes:

 

• Last month in criminal justice: our panel discussion on the first Wednesday of each month, looking at all the key criminal justice developments over the previous month.
• Lunch with...: our mid-month conversation with interesting and inspiring campaigners, practitioners and thinkers.

For our next Last month in criminal justice, on Wednesday, 6 April, I will be joined by, among others, prisons expert Rob Allen and policing expert Rick Muir, to review this month's criminal justice developments.

 

Items up for discussion include:

 

• Is it time for fundamental reform of the police?
• Should the prison inspectorate stop making recommendations?
• Are girls who have faced abuse and violence being retraumatised by the youth justice system?
• Why are defendants being held for so long on remand in prison, awaiting trial?
• Is the legal aid system in crisis?

 

For more info and to book your place: https://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/event/2022-04-06/april-edition-last-month-criminal-justice

For our next Lunch with... programme, on Wednesday, 20 April, I will be joined by Charlie Weinberg, Chief Executive of Safe Ground, a specialist organisation running arts-based therapeutic programmes in prisons. Prior to joining Safe Ground, Charlie had variously been a youth worker, a drugs counsellor, a community arts activist, a film producer and a script writer on an award-winning soap opera in Nicaragua: Sexto Sentido.

 

Charlie and I will be discussing her career trajectory, the work of Safe Ground, and what transformative practice looks like.

 

For more info and to book your place: https://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/event/2022-04-20/lunch-charlie-weinberg

 

Richard Garside
Director | Centre for Crime and Justice Studies | 2 Langley Lane | London SW8 1GB
www.crimeandjustice.org.uk | @richardjgarside

 

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