In this conversation, Shadd Maruna and Fergus McNeill reflect on what they learned from collaborating in making the documentary film ‘The Road from Crime’ and from the associated Desistance Knowledge Exchange project, but they also stray into wider discussions about creative, sensory and public criminologies, musing on how researchers can and should engage with others in pursuit of justice.

 Fergus McNeill is Professor of Criminology & Social Work in the University of Glasgow where he works in the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research and in Sociology, and his work can be found here:

https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/staff/fergusmcneill/

Shadd Maruna is Professor of Criminology in the Department of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work, QUB. You can find out more about Shadd's work here:https://edition.cnn.com/specials/asia/hong-kong-protests-intl-hnk 

https://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/could-hong-kong-become-belfast 

Discretion: The episode was recorded back in November 2019. As such, it did not account for recent events such as the council elections where it saw an unprecedented victory for the pro-democracy camp which details could be found: https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/11/25/what-happened-hong-kong-elections/ 

Professor Brice Dickson is an emeritus professor in Queen’s University Belfast. You can find more about his work here: https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/brice-dickson 

In relation to the 2019 Stephen Livingstone Annual Lecture delivered by him on the Problems of Human Rights, it can be found here:

http://law.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofLaw/news/StephenLivingstoneAnnualLecture2019ProfessorBriceDickson.html