The Justice Secretary David Gauke announced on Thursday (25th May 2018), the Government would introduce a new strategy to deal with reoffending and the rehabilitation of offenders. The strategy unveiled, is to get people that have offended back into employment through vocational training, inside and out of prison. Working with companies offering training […]
You wake up one day and realise you’ve acted out being the victim, poured your pain and being out to the ‘welfareist’ and become abused by the class that claims to be the saviours of social justice …
You think, ‘fuck it’, I’ll show them Wolves what it means to be a ‘critical thinker’, a […]
“Too much information cripples understanding”
It’s just simply ‘change’, the Hegelian agents of discourse, the ‘agents’ (academics, practitioners, scrupulous charities) that take charge of your voice, confuse your narrative with a new academic verse of commodity.
“An ignorant mind is precisely not a spotless, empty vessel, but one that’s filled with […]
The language of desistance for those that live it, is not in words but rather behaviour – the destiny of accumulative changes in a rehabilitative context. The language of “desistance” is solely the preserve of the academic, researcher or practitioner. It’s another academically constructed word for the observation of behavioural changes, or at least that’s […]
Identity theft is a criminal offence, but what happens when identity is not available to be stolen? Tracey McMahon
Identity details are in a vast range of legal and binding documents. My passport informs those who scan it, that I am female. My driving licence tells me I am female, as does my birth certificate; […]
Is there such a thing as a good day as a prisoner? Well I guess it would depend on what one would class as ‘good’. Many would class a good day as just being able to mark another day off the calendar. For first time offenders getting through your first day without someone […]
Becoming ill, the illness can sometimes not be diagnosed, symptoms show themselves yet, professionals fail to find the problem. The concern in terms of understanding desistance is, it’s becoming misunderstood. Our increased awareness of the phenomenon subjects it to what I would describe as unhealthy elements translating it into practice. Is it becoming undiagnosed of […]
Equality of opportunity is not enough. Unless we create an environment where everyone is guaranteed some minimum capabilities through some guarantee of minimum income, education, and healthcare, we cannot say that we have fair competition. When some people have to run a 100 metre race with sandbags on their legs, the fact that no one […]