Dec 13, 2022
Since completing her PhD thesis, Dr Anastacia Elle Ryan has spent the last ten years working as a researcher, advocate and social entrepreneur promoting the rights of sex workers and criminalised women in Scotland and further afield.
Anastacia founded a charity which aimed to remove the stigma often associated with sex...
Dec 6, 2022
Fergus McNeill, who is a Professor of Criminology and Social Work at the University of Glasgow, started his career as a criminal justice social worker before entering the world of academia in the late 90’s. Since then, much of his work has focused on how we punish, rehabilitate and reintegrate people into the...
Nov 29, 2022
Former solicitor and now PhD student Deborah Russo intended her research into segregation in Scottish prisons to begin with a series of in-person interviews, but as Covid hit in 2020 she quickly had to devise an alternative plan.
Over the last year she has been working on a written correspondence project which has seen...
Nov 22, 2022
Dr Emma Forbes joins us in this episode to describe her extraordinary project GlassWalls which uses the medium of stained glass to shine a light on domestic abuse in Scotland.
Emma talks to Rachelle Cobain about each of the glass panels and the stories they tell us about victim/survivors and how law and society has...
Apr 20, 2022
In this special podcast episode we got four amazing criminologists together to discuss the question, 'is there life after state punishment?'
Professor Fergus McNeill and Dr Marguerite Schinkel from the University of Glasgow are joined by Dr Reuben Jonathan Miller, University of Chicago and Professor Shadd Maruna,...