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The School To Prison Pipeline

Posted on April 10, 2012 | Leave a comment

This 30 minute long audio podcast is an episode of  the BBC World Service radio documentary series which was broadcast by the BBC today, 10 Apr 12 for a worldwide audience.
In this podcast, Nina Robinson reports from Texas on how the heavy hand of the law in some US schools is criminalising the very young. Podcast link: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00qh8pf. The podcast can be downloaded as a 11MB mp3 and kept.
There is an accompanying news feature Misbehaving pupils ending up in court which covers many of the points made in the podcast, and I found it easier to absorb and think about the facts and figures seeing them written down. The BBC provide a link to the research study on which this news item is based, and their whole report can be freely downloaded: Breaking Schools’ Rules: A Statewide Study on How School Discipline Relates to Students’ Success and Juvenile Justice Involvement.
Taken together, the podcast, news feature and research report makes a cohesive package for those with an interest in school discipline and youth justice. Bear in mind that this was broadcast for a global audience – no comparisons are made with the UK, but that doesn’t make it any less valuable as a basis for thinking and debate amongst UK students and practitioners.
BBC podcasts can be shared within the classroom or lecture theatre for educational purposes.  © All rights reserved by the BBC.

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Zero tolerance to gang culture

Posted on March 30, 2012 | Leave a comment

This is a podcast from The Guardian.

‘Analysis commissioned by the government suggests only 13% of those arrested in the 2011 summer riots could credibly be linked to gangs, so Hugh Muir asks if a zero-tolerance approach to gangs is missing the point?’
This 40-minute podcast was originally published on 18 Nov 2011 for a general public audience. It can be downloaded as a 36MB mp3 and kept.
Link: www.guardian.co.uk/world/audio/2011/nov/18/focus-podcast-gang-culture
I did not comment on this when it was published last autumn as there was so much debate in the aftermath of the riots and I was interested to see which would stand the test of time – which this does. The podcast is in two parts: Street-level reports from London, Glasgow & Boston, followed by a well-informed studio debate which will be of interest to youth justice, criminology and youthwork practitioners and students alike. The podcast would make a good basis for a student assignment question or individual preparation for a workplace or tutorial discussion.
As this podcast contains a range of attributable quotes that students might wish to cite in assignments, its value would be enhanced if The Guardian were to provide a transcript, as the BBC sometimes does.
Guardian podcasts are for personal and non-commercial use only. © All rights reserved by The Guardian.

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Evidence-based Interventions in Juvenile Justice

Posted on November 25, 2011 | Leave a comment

This 1 hour lecture published on 24 Nov 2011 is from a series of Sidney Ball Memorial Lectures at Oxford University.

Professor Mark Lipsey (Peabody Research Institute, Vanderbilt University, USA) discusses evidence-based interventions in Juvenile Justice: Concepts, Research, Practice, and Frontiers. The lecture can be downloaded and kept as either a 30MB mp3 audio or 521MB mp4 video.

This lecture is published with a licence that allows it to be edited, for example if you only want to play a short passage. However, I was frustrated that Mark Lipsey repeatedly refers to a diagram that the viewer is not shown!

Link: http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/units/social-policy-and-intervention

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