Criminal Justice
US Focus:
Excerpt from The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander (short)
Locked Out of the American Dream, video interview with Michelle Alexander (30 min)
13TH by Ava DuVernay - Netflix (1h 40 min)
Australia Focus:
Racism in Policing (article)
ANTAR website 2026
https://antar.org.au/issues/racism/policing/
Jailing is Failing (website)
Justice Reform Initiative campaign
https://www.justicereforminitiative.org.au/jailingisfailing
Aotearoa/NZ Focus:
Who are prisons actually helping? (video)
Alice Snedden’s Bad News, The Spinoff, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6PvFDntjcc&list=PL-xxT3W4uRNYxz3NnaVQeFyZ0b2DF2cwV&index=7
Why did Māori never have prisons? (article excerpt)
Moana Jackson, 2017
https://matikemai.maori.nz/articles/why-did-maori-never-have-prisons/
UK Focus:
The Lammy Report (2017)
UN concerns about structural racism in the UK (2018)
Piers Morgan and Akala have a conversation about race and knife crime (2019)
Met police found to be institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic (Guardian article with link to report (March 2023)
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