Just Humans

Stories of justice from the people who make it. Brought to you by the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research.

Just Humans is a society podcast hosted by SCCJR, with 17 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

SCCJR hosts Just Humans, a society show with 17 episodes published.

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  Episode #3

  A Sentence with No End? The Order for Lifelong Restriction

  Jul 8, 202529 minS4

  <p >In this episode I talk to Nicola Ceesay and Dr Marguerite Schinkel about Order for Lifelong Restrictions (OLR) in Scotland and the realities of living with a sentence that feels like it has no end.</p> <p >Nicola, who has spent the last few years researching the Order for Lifelong Restriction as part of her PhD thesis, explains why these sentences exist, and she tell us about the impact they’ve had on the people who are serving them.</p> <p >Joining Nicola is Dr Marguerite Schinkel, a senior lecturer in Criminology at the University of Glasgow, who talks abo...

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  Episode #2

  The Barlinnie Special Unit: Art, Punishment and Innovation

  Jan 28, 202536 minS4

  <p >In this episode our host Rachelle Cobain talks to Dr Kirstin Anderson about a new book she’s edited called 'The Barlinnie Special Unit: Art, Punishment and Innovation'.</p> <p >Kirstin is a Lecturer in Criminology at Edinburgh Napier University and has spent a large part of her career teaching music in schools, universities and in prisons. She’s now turned her attention to the history and legacy of the Barlinnie Special Unit, which was a small therapeutic unit that opened in 1973 as a way of managing long term prisoners and violent offenders. Dubbed the world’s most ambitious penal e...

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  Young Thug: Art as Evidence in the War on Gangs

  Oct 1, 202441 minS4

  <p >Grammy-award winning rapper Young Thug is currently at the centre of one of the longest criminal trials in Georgia state history. He’s been charged alongside more than two dozen other people under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, known as RICO. Prosecutors are using his rap lyrics as evidence he and a gang called YSL are involved in serious criminal activity, but his defence attorneys say Thug is entirely innocent and that he’s not running a gang, he’s running a record label.</p> <p >Dr Gemma Flynn unpacks this extraordinary case in her latest zine called...

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  Episode #5

  Punishment & Protection: The Paradox of Sex Work in Scotland

  Dec 13, 202252 minS3

  <p>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. </p> <p>Anastacia founded a charity which aimed to remove the stigma often associated with sex work and provided support and services that improved the lives of hundreds of women across Scotland.</p> <p>In this final episode of the season, Anastacia talks to Rachelle Cobain about the social and legal position of sex work, how decriminalisation may have a positive impact o...

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  Episode #4

  Teejay & Mary: Two Tales of Supervision

  Dec 6, 202255 minS3

  <p>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 community after they’ve offended.</p> <p>In this episode we talk about how two very different encounters Fergus has had during his career – one with a man we’re calling Teejay and another with Mary – had a profound and enduring impact on his research and his percep...

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