English Prisons at War: Imprisonment during national crisis Sep 1, 2019 - Apr 30, 2023
This research will focus on a neglected period of penal history within existing research; the English prison system during the two World Wars 1914-1918 and 1939-1945. The aim is to explore in detail via a wide range of archival and documentary source...
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Professor Helen Johnston's Projects (3)
'Invalids', Disability and the Modern Prison May 1, 2018 - Jan 31, 2021
The contemporary prison system has been forced to respond in a more systematic manner to the needs of disabled prisoners due the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and the subsequent Equalities Act 2010, as a group with 'protected characteristics'. T...
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Our Criminal Past: Our Criminal Ancestors May 11, 2017 - Jun 30, 2018
This project encourages and supports people and communities to explore the criminal past of their own families, towns and regions. In this project we interpret 'criminal' broadly to mean people who have (historically) encountered the criminal justice...
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