February edition: Last month in criminal justice

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2 February 2022, 11:00 - 12:30

Our director Richard Garside and guests discuss what happened in criminal justice during January 2022.

We discussed the following topics:

  • Policing and party-gate: Why were the police seemingly so reluctant to investigate the alleged lockdown-breaking Downing Street parties and what do the latest developments mean?
  • Babies in prison: The Prison and Probation Ombudsman's report on the still-birth of Brooke Leigh Powell in Styal women's prison
  • Recent developments in the management of transgender prisoners
  • Do the police have a women problem? What do the cases of Koshka Duff, Kate Wilson and Sarah Everard say about the state of misogyny in the police?
  • Record numbers of prison deaths
  • The (non-)prosecution of sexual offences

Watch the discussion

 


Panellists joining Richard this month:

  • Kate Coleman, Director, Keep Prisons Single Sex
  • Rona Epstein, Research Fellow, Coventry University
  • Peter Neyroud, Associate Professor in Evidence-based Policing, University of Cambridge, and former Chief Constable
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