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Sarah E. Lageson talks to Adam Harkens  about new forms of digital punishment and social control in the United States.

Sarah E. Lageson PhD  joins the podcast  to discuss new forms of digital punishment and social control in the United States, brought about by the unregulated digital dissemination of arrest information, court records and criminal history reports. As criminal justice paperwork is increasingly transformed into digital data, this information is purchased and replicated by big data vendors for use outside of the criminal context, and can later be found on social media, online news and credit and background checks, among other channels.  In this podcast, Sarah discusses the contexts contributing to this situation, the consequences for individuals involved in the process, and highlights some of the key regulatory differences between the U.S. and the European Union.

Adam Harkens -  pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/adam-harkens(2c64170f-091f-4cee-8beb-9480dd014537).html

@AdamHarkens

Dr Sarah Lagerson –  www.sarahlageson.com and https://rscj.newark.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/dr-sarah-e-lageson/

@sarahlageson

Dr Kirsten McConnachie from the School of Law at Warwick University talks to our own Professor Colin Harvey about the ongoing refugee crisis in Myanmar.

Dr McConnachie discusses her ongoing research into the region, and places the Rohingya crisis into its broader political and historical context.

Participants:

Dr Kirsten McConnachie – warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/research/people?id=bb98657259820030fc251db3bc3485f7

@KirstenMcconnac

Professor Colin Harvey - pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/colin-harvey(b78326e0-78c4-437b-9d23-9cd6217db870).html

Human Rights in Palestine.   This podcast was recorded in conjunction with an event hosted by the Queen’s Human Rights Centre, the Queen’s George Mitchell Institute, and the School of Ecumenic in Trinity College Dublin, at which Dr Nahed Habiballah and Nery Ramati discussed their work in relation to the human rights situation in Palestine.

It begins with an interview with Alice Panepinto about her research and time living in Palestine, before moving into a conversation between Alice, Nahed and Nery about the legal systems in the Occupied Territories, and the impact of Israeli occupation on the lives of Palestinians.

Participants:   Dr Alice Panepinto joined QUB Law School as a lecturer in August 2017. Prior to that she was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Human Rights in Practice at Warwick University, and previously worked outside academia on human rights and international law issues in the Middle East. Alice researches international law, human rights and transitional justice, with a regional interest in the Middle East. She also pursues land law themes emerging from her research specialisms.  You can see a film she made about her research here https://lacuna.org.uk/war-and-peace/al-khan-al-ahmar-palestine-school-demolition-order/

Nery Ramat is a is a partner in Gaby Lasky and Partners Law Office, a leading human rights firm in Israel specializing in freedom of expression and protest. He has represented Palestinian, Israeli and international human rights and anti-occupation activists in the military and civil courts since 2008. He has also provided legal counsel to various organizations engaged in documenting and protesting human rights abuses and violations of international law by the Israeli authorities in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Dr Nahed Habiballah is an adjunct professor at the Arab American University in Palestine. She has a background in Sociology, and her research interests include the sociology of religion and political sociology with an emphasis on the Middle East in general and Israel/Palestine in particular.

Podcast notes: As part of the 16 Days of Activism Event held at Queen’s University in December 2017, Dr Kathryn McNeilly was joined in the studio by Dr Charlotte Bishop (Exeter University), Dr Vanessa Bettinson (De Montfort University) and Jan Melia (CEO of Women's Aid Federation NI). They discussed national and international perspectives on domestic violence, and how law and policy has responded to this type of harm.

Personal Profiles:

Dr Kathryn McNeilly: https://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/kathryn-mcneilly(464c4e02-1d65-41e2-b872-75d0a6a58579).html

(Twitter - @kmcneilly01)

Dr Charlotte Bishop - https://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/law/staff/bishop/

Dr Vanessa Bettinson - http://www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/academic-staff/business-and-law/vanessa-bettinson/vanessa-bettinson.aspx

Jan Melia - www.womensaidni.org/

Links for Episode Notes

16 Days of Activism –www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/ending-violence-against-women/take-action/16-days-of-activism

Guidance on Domestic Violence and Abuse: www.gov.uk/guidance/domestic-violence-and-abuse

24 hour domestic and sexual violence helpline:

Call 0808 802 1414

Text support to 07797 805 839

Email [email protected]

Podcast Notes

On today’s episode, Professor Phil Scraton discusses the implications of mandatory life sentencing and the failures of the modern penal system. Professor Scraton’s research profile can be found here. His new book, ‘Women’s Imprisonment and the Case for Abolition: Critical Reflections on Corston Ten Years On’ co-edited with Linda Moore and Azrini Wahidin, is out now.

For more information about the recent inspection reports on HMP Liverpool and HMP Nottingham, as well as the results of a 2015 report on Maghaberry Prison, please visit the following links:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42310501

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hmp-nottingham-prison-inmates-lives-risk-urgent-notification-inspector-suicide-a8166336.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-34733832

A findings paper from the HM Inspectorate of Prisons details the poor conditions found across the UK in general.

Further statistics and information on life imprisonment can be found at https://www.penalreform.org/priorities/life-imprisonment/.