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Creating criminals: prisons and security in an insecure world, Baroness Vivien Stern
13:42, Mon 23 Feb 2009
Baroness Vivien Stern Senior Research Fellow, International Centre for Prison Studies, King's College London On Wednesday February 4th Vivien Stern delivered a public lecture entitled 'Creating Criminals: prisons and security in an insecure world'. Baronness Stern is one of the world's leading scholars and campaigners working on prison reform. Her published books include "A Sin Against the Future: Imprisonment in the World", "Imprisoned by our Prisons and Bricks of Shame", "Britain’s Prisons", "Deprived of their Liberty", "Alternatives to Prison in Developing Countries", and "Sentenced to Die? The problem of TB in prisons in Eastern Europe and Central Asia". She has been awarded honorary degrees of Doctor of Laws by Bristol University and by Oxford Brookes University and is an Honorary Fellow of LSE. She is a Life Peer and sits in the House of Lords as a Crossbencher. During her lecture she was able to draw on her experiences visiting prisons around the globe, as well as her political and academic experience.
(MP3 format, 71 MB)