Monday, 12 July 2010

Summer Reading Project: 13 July 2010

Just a reminder that the next meeting is in the Inner Common Room at 3pm on Tuesday 13th July. Katrina will be giving an overview of Chapter 5 'Project Exile: Race, the War on Crime, and Mass Imprisonment' from Jonathan Simon's Governing Through Crime. Look forward to seeing you there.

By way of a slightly tenuous link you might be interested that the Chief Inspector of Probation Andrew Bridges has called today for a 'deeper debate' on prison and punishment - whilst he recognises that prison can prevent offending, he also argues that this is a very expensive way of doing this. You can listen to the interview from Radio 4 Today programme here:-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8809000/8809436.stm
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  1. Tree Morrison13 July 2010 at 09:19

    Andrew Bridges may be one of the 'usual suspects' but his comments certainly form part of a drip drip of similar arguments at the moment (none as astonishing as Ken Clarke's though). As pointed out in a letter in the paper yesterday (http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/jul/12/consensus-crime-prisons), the real test will be to see what the Labour candidates say in a couple of weeks time.

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