NATURE OR NURTURE

Posted on August 22, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged anomie, crime, criminal, death penalty, deterrent, Emile Durkheim, ethics, featured, felony, Feltham, HMOY, jail, justice, law, norms, prison, prisoner, privilege, reform, report, Robert K Merton, schools, self harm, sociology, suicide, terror.

by David Breakspear

CW: mentions suicide, self-harm

In my previous article ‘Consequence of Conscience’, I mention a work titled Suicide by sociologist Émile Durkheim. In Suicide, Durkheim introduced us to the term ‘anomie’, suggesting it to be a breakdown of social norms resulting in a lack of standards and values. He also used this same term and definition to explain a reason as to why some members of society embark on a path of crime or ‘deviance’ – straying from the norm. Durkheim saw deviance as an inevitable part of life which is needed for innovation and change.Continue Reading

PRIVATISE(D)EVASTATION

Posted on March 9, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged crime, education, ethics, featured, justice, liberty, morality, prison, prison reform, privatisation, reflective writing, reoffending, self harm, social norms, society, suicide.

By David Breakspear

Cw: suicide, self-harm

“The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”

Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird

Once again, we witness more self-inflicted deaths in custody routinely followed by lessons not being learned, recommendations being ignored, and worst of all — even in cases where an inquest jury has delivered a unanimous decision on a failure to provide an individual with a duty of care — no action being taken against those who failed to provide the care that loved ones and families of those in prison have a right to expect.Continue Reading

WHAT IS PRISON?

Posted on February 9, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged drug abuse, drug policy, drug trafficking, drug use, featured, HM Inspectorate of Prisons, HMP, ministry of justice, MoJ, prison, prison reform, psychoactive substances, self harm, suicide, the bromley briefings, the prison reform trust, violence.

By David Breakspear

Prison – noun – a building in which people are legally held as a punishment for a crime they have committed or while awaiting trial.
One of the Ministry of Justices’ four strategic priorities is “A prison and probation service that reforms offenders” (Ministry of Justice).

Number one is definitely the case, but what about number two? Well, based on the latest government figures in relation to self-harm, violence, and suicides, I would suggest that the Ministry of Justice is not delivering on one of its key strategic priorities.Continue Reading

LITTLE CUTS

Posted on October 2, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged borstal, creative writing, Disney, dole, domestic violence, grades, graft, growing up, happy ending, Kev Walker, poem, poetry, police, reality, school, self harm, shoplifting, stealing, substance misuse, theft, violence, youth.

by Kev Walker

Content warning: mentions domestic violence, substance misuse, neglect and self-harm

He woke in the morning, as often he’d done
awake with the birds and the half risen sun.
The room was a tip, he hated it so
but to tidy takes time, it was time to go.

Throw on some clothes from off of the floor
kick his way through the grubby, knuckle-marked door.
Sneak down the staircase, dodging needles and glass
peer into the lounge, they’ll be easy to pass.Continue Reading

THOUGHTS FROM THE FENCES – YARL’S WOOD & THE IMPORTANCE OF IMMIGRANT RIGHTS

Posted on May 18, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Student and tagged #GE2017, abuse, asylum seekers, austerity, borders, Brexit, Britain, British values, crime, cuts, deportation, depression, detention, detention centres, dignity, education, empowerment, government, harassment, hate crime, healthcare, Home Office, homophobia, Hostile Environment Policy, human rights, hunger strike, immigration, immigration law, immigration raids, international students, intimidation, kidnapping, law, legal aid, LGBT+, migrants, migration, money, Movement for Justice, norwich, POC, prison, privatisation, protest, queer, racism, rape, scapegoating, self harm, Serco, solicitors, solidarity, Stansted airport, student activism, students, suicide, survivors, theresa may, tolerance, trauma, tuition fees, UEA, violence, welfare, women, women's rights, work, Yarl's Wood.

by Lotty Clare

Content warning: mentions violence against women, abuse, rape, self-harm, suicide, racism, harassment, homophobia.

Last Saturday, a group of UEA students and Norwich residents travelled to a protest at Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre in Bedfordshire. This protest was the fifth Movement for Justice by Any Means Necessary (MFJ) has organised to shut down detention centres. As I approached the building, hidden inside an industrial estate, surrounded by fields, in the middle of nowhere, it was just as intimidating and depressing as 6 months ago when I went to Yarl’s Wood for the first time. It looks like a prison, except that it is ‘worse than prison, because you have no rights’, as former detainee Aisha Shua put it. Some women are in Yarl’s Wood because their visa expired, others because their asylum claim was unsuccessful. They have committed no crime. And yet they can be detained there indefinitely.

BODY ART IN THE WORK PLACE

Posted on November 7, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged art, art history, artist, body, body art, body politics, discrimination, female body, identity, job, media, nudity, painting, perception, photography, reputation, self harm, self love, skin, tattoo, visual, women, work place.

by Jess Howard

Covering the body with tattoos has been a tradition among multiple socio-economic groups for centuries. From identification to decoration, the act of adorning the skin with ink is in no way novel or unique. Day to day it is incredibly common to see tattoos on people of all ages, from the first tattoo immediately after the 18th birthday, to the person in their mid forties with an exquisite and elaborate full sleeve. In short, ink is everywhere.

Yet the stigma attached to visual tattoos in the work place shows minimal chance of disappearing. When I started my first ‘proper’ job, I was told that tattoos were not allowed to be visible, and even today, ten pieces of ink later, I find myself wearing long sleeves to interviews and asking if my potential employer would like me to cover them up. Even I, a woman who has long loved body art in all of its forms, assume that the stigma is still attached.Continue Reading

self harm

NATURE OR NURTURE

WHAT IS PRISON?

LITTLE CUTS

THOUGHTS FROM THE FENCES – YARL’S WOOD & THE IMPORTANCE OF IMMIGRANT RIGHTS

BODY ART IN THE WORK PLACE

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