A criminology podcast amplifying the voices shaping justice. Each episode features in-depth conversations with people doing the work—whether through academic research, NGO projects, or frontline practice. Together, we not only shine a spotlight on the ideas and innovations transforming criminal justice across the world, but also challenge traditional ways of thinking about justice and explore what lies beyond them.
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37: Carceral Roots of the Anti-Trans Backlash with Prof Lamble In this episode, Dr Omar Phoenix Khan speaks with Lamble, Professor in Criminology and Queer Theory at Birkbeck, University of London, a leading scholar-activist at the intersection of gender, sexuality, and transformative justice. Lamble has spent decades working in community organising, prison abolition, and queer activism and has…
Why is a focus on racism so often missing from prison research, even when the evidence shows time and again its power to shape experience and outcomes? In this episode, Dr Omar Phoenix Khan speaks with Dr Jason Warr , Associate Professor in Criminology at the University of Nottingham about his paper ‘ Whitening Black Men ’, winnerof the BJC's 2023 Article of the Year , which sets out how the…
In this episode, Dr Omar Phoenix Khan speakswith Professor Kate Gooch, Professor in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Bath, about her ethnographic research in young offender institutions and her recently published book Prison Violence: In Search of Recognition and Respect (Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology). Kate is one of the leading scholars of youth custody and prison…
Can changing the story we tell about crime actually change the policies that follow? In this episode, Dr Omar Phoenix Khan speaks with Dr Janeille Zorina Matthews, multidisciplinary criminal justice scholar, Deputy Dean, and Lecturer at the Faculty of Law at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, about her work at the intersections of criminology, law, storytelling, and social justice in…
What does it mean to hope when thesystem has already decided your fate? In this episode, Dr Omar Phoenix Khan speaks with Professor Harry Annison from Southampton Law School, about penal politics, the families of indeterminate-sentenced prisoners, and why storytelling is at the heart of how criminal justice systems change, or fail to. Harry is one of the leading scholars of penal policy in England…
Why are some harms defined as crimes, while others are not? And who gets to decide? In this episode, Omar sits down with Dr Lynne Copson, Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the Open University, to explore the relationship between criminology and zemiology (the study of social harm), and to dig into her new edited collection, Crime, Harm and the State , co-edited with Dr Eleni Dimou and Dr Steve…
Welcome back to part two of our conversation with Dr Tina Skinner . In the first episode, we explored Tina’s powerful work on gender-based violence and asked a vital question: How do we do ethical, sustainable research in such a heavy, emotionally charged field? In this second half, we shift gears to focus on Tina’s latest initiative, The Researcher Wellbeing Project — a project that dares to ask…
Dr Tina Skinner is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Bath, where she has been working since 2002. She is one of the founders of the Criminology Degree at the University of Bath,and a founder of the Special Interest Group on Disability, Work, Family and Care within the Work and Families Researcher Network (USA). In 2020, Dr Skinner was invited to give evidence to the Women and Equalities…
Jen Harris is the founder & Co-Director of The Black Criminology Network , launched in 2020 to assist Criminologists of Black heritage to obtain the relevant opportunities and support to succeed in their careers. Jen is a Criminology PhD Researcher at the University of Birmingham, UK. In this episode, Omar chats to her about The Black Criminology Network and her hopes for the group, as well as her…
How is crime reported — and who gets to shape the narrative? In this episode, Dr. Omar Phoenix Khan speaks with Vikram Dodd, Police and Crime Correspondent for The Guardian , about the challenges and responsibilities of covering crime, policing, and justice in the UK. With a career spanning some of the most significant moments in recent British criminal justice history — from the racist murder of…
