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Prisoners at work: A collaboration between documentary photographer Andy Aitchison, Barbed graphic design studio (HMP Coldingley) and the Howard League for Penal Reform’
Get PDFThe photographs reproduced here represent an alternative way of communicating the experiences of those incarcerated in British prisons through visualising and contextualising ‘prisoners at work’. The photographs were taken by Andy Aitchison, a freelance professional photographer with experience working in the prison system, and commissioned and produced as an exhibition piece by design studio, Barbed Design. Barbed Design is part of the Howard League for Penal Reform and based in HMP Coldingley, Surrey, England. The studio employs and trains prison inmates in graphic design, IT, and pre-press. Managed by an experienced graphic designer, and with regular participation from visiting experts, volunteers and professional teachers, Barbed is a working design studio. It is run as a profit-making enterprise which competes for and carries out design work for external clients. All profits are put back into the charitable work of the Howard League for Penal Reform. What is unique about Barbed, in addition to its location, is that employed prisoners are paid minimum wage. They pay tax and national insurance, start bank accounts and pensions, and they are protected by employment legislation. These conditions enable Barbed staff to contribute toward supporting their dependents while incarcerated
Bosnia’s EU Candidacy Cannot be Sustained by Minimal Internal Compromises
Get PDFBosnia’s formal application for EU membership, received today, is predicated on a new and untested framework for the country’s political entities to cooperate with each other, writes Andy Aitchison. Drawing on the EU’s attempts to reform the police several years ago, he argues that, if leaders continue striking political agreements that meet just the minimum required by international actors, the country will not resolve the serious challenges it faces
Bosnia’s EU Candidacy Cannot be Sustained by Minimal Internal Compromises
Get PDFBosnia’s formal application for EU membership, received today, is predicated on a new and untested framework for the country’s political entities to cooperate with each other, writes Andy Aitchison. Drawing on the EU’s attempts to reform the police several years ago, he argues that, if leaders continue striking political agreements that meet just the minimum required by international actors, the country will not resolve the serious challenges it faces
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Making the transition ::international intervention, state-building and criminal justice reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina /
No full textMaking the Transition provides an analysis of processes of reform, reconstruction and restructuring in the criminal justice field in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the years since it completed a violent secession from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). Across the three sectors of policing, courts and prisons, the work details the challenges facing Bosnia and Herzegovina and explores a range of internationally-sponsored reform initiatives. These three sectors are often examined independently of each other, but by analysing their development side by side Making the Transition is able to determine common challenges while establishing different logics and methods of international intervention. The book reflects the author's education in a number of disciplines (politics, history, criminology) and is a useful addition to the bookshelf of those with an interest in the mechanics of state-building and in the reconstruction of post-conflict states. About this book: 'Andy Aitchison succeeds in making a book that is big in insight out of what to many might seem like a small topic - the transformation (or not) of the criminal justice systems in Bosnia and Herzegovina since the dissolution of Yugoslavia. He writes with clarity and nuance about these changes in the context of more general themes of transitional justice in Europe and Southern Africa, and this superb historically, politically and theoretically informed book should be read by all those with an interest in the challenges and pitfalls of efforts to reform policing, court and prison processes.' Professor Mike Levi, Cardiff University 'The depth and breadth of Aitchison's sources are two of the book's greatest strengths, providing a broad but nuanced view of the social, economic, and political situation surrounding the reforms. [M]aking the Transition provides a wonderfully detailed description of the post-conflict criminal justice system of BiH. While the book may run short on analysis, it is highly useful providing a snapshot of a transitional justice system based on a vast amount of information, including first hand descriptions of observers and practitioners. As such, it serves as an important building block for those seeking to construct a geographically wide-ranging understanding of the issues and challenges involved in state-building and criminal justice reform in a post-conflict, post-authoritarian society.' Madalyn Wasilczuk in Journal of International Law and Politics, 2012, 1000 'Aitchison has written a well-researched and readable book that will be a useful source for scholars of Bi Hand criminal justice reform more broadly. [...] And he judiciously describes the different motivations of reforming agencies [...] As evidenced by the continuing central role of the justice sector in BiH politics this book [...] is highly relevant.' Valery Perry in Security and Human Rights 2012, 75 'Since the book gives a concise introduction to the historical context and important concepts and terms, it is not only for experts in the field of criminal law reform and reconstruction of states, rather it is also suitable also for readers who have not extensively dealt with these themes before' Eva Dinchel in Polizei Newsletter 2014 About the author Since 2006, Andy Aitchison has lectured at the University of Edinburgh School of Social and Political Science, where he now co-directs the MSc programme in Global Crime, Justice and Security. He holds degrees from the University of Edinburgh and Cardiff University and has previously worked as a researcher for the UK Home Office and Cardiff University. His research interests focus on international participation in criminal justice reform in post-conflict environments and on the participation of police in war crimes
Global Media Ideas - Infinite Pathways to Creative Succes - Andy Elwood - Part One.mp4
No full textDuring the X Media Lab: Global Media Ideas summit in June 2011, media and technology writer Brad Howarth conducted interviews with industry experts for Creativeinnovation. This video is part one of Brad Howarth's interview with Andy Elwood, Directory of Business Development at Gowalla. Andy Elwood discusses the idea behind the application and how their founder Josh Williams went from inspiration to launching the idea as a business and where they stand in the market today
Global Media Ideas - Infinite Pathways to Creative Succes - Andy Elwood - Part Two.mp4
No full textDuring the X Media Lab: Global Media Ideas summit in June 2011, media and technology writer Brad Howarth conducted interviews with industry experts for Creativeinnovation. This video is part two of Brad Howarth's interview with Andy Elwood, Director of Business Development at Gowalla. Andy Elwood discuss how other companies should be taking advantage of the location platform to create experiences of their brand, not just using the platform as a point of data generation. Elwood also observes that Australian brands and creative companies are well positioned to become market leaders in this platform which is still relatively new world-wide
Marie and Andy Auzin visit the Old Town part of Riga Latvia
No full textMarie and Andy Auzins visit the Old Town part of Riga with cousin Elita Petersone in 19942.1.3 Current Latvian History in Europe (Pre-Post WWII), 2.1.1 Physical Attributes of Latvi
20 x 20 : Twenty Years of Conundrum Press
No full text"To celebrate twenty years in operation he [Andy Brown] asked one author or artist for each year of the press who had a book out that year to contribute something new, something that represented Conundrum. For some it would have been the first book he or she had ever made. So in the end twenty Conundrumites represent twenty years, hence 20×20. There will be digging deep into the archives, there will be memoirs, there will be comics, drawings, and photographs. There will be laughter and tears of joy." -- Publisher's website
Episode 62: Andy Jones: Asking the Right Questions
No full textAndy Jones, B.A. \u2706 is a writer, pastor, and CSP alumnus who lives in the Bay Area. In this interview, he shares about his experiences as a CSP student and staff member, his ministry journey, and how he became a published author. His books bring tremendous theological insights in an accessible and understandable manner
Democracy and epistocracy reconciled? The Scottish Police Authority and police governance in Scotland after 2012
Get PDFThis thesis examines the emergent role of the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) in
delivering organisational accountability of the Police Service of Scotland, following
reform in 2012. The Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 amalgamated the
eight local police forces into a single force, ‘Police Scotland’, and replaced the
concomitant local police authorities, responsible for maintaining and governing those
forces, into a national governing body: the SPA. The study draws on a broad range of
qualitative data that includes official policy documents, selected minutes of public
meetings held by the Justice Committee, and the SPA, inspection reports by HMICS
and Audit Scotland, and interviews with a cross-section of stakeholders including a
former Minister, senior police officers, members of the SPA, and MSPs.
This study chronicles the inception and early development of the SPA, and critically
assesses the SPA’s emergent accountability processes in relation to the perennial
problems of police governance. Firstly, the doctrine of operational independence of
chief constables, rooted in the traditional, and to-date “sacrosanct”, notion of
constabulary independence (Reiner, 2013: 169), makes organisational accountability
of the police a complicated and contested matter (Lustgarten, 1986; Walker, 2000;
Donnelly and Scott, 2002a; Jones, 2008; Reiner, 2010). Secondly, there is a perpetual
debate about whether the governance of police should be situated within local
government structures, or delivered through central government. There is consensus
among policing scholars that the persistent trend towards greater centralisation,
coupled with the operational independence doctrine, curtailed the performance of the
local police boards and their ability to hold chief constables to account (Walker, 2000;
Donnelly and Scott, 2002a; Scott, 2011; Reiner, 2013). Amidst the tussle between
central and local political actors for democratic control of the police, the recent policy
discourse in Scotland, that led to the reforms and the creation of the SPA, has
highlighted that the governance of the police requires expertise, skills and capacities,
which the previous local police authorities lacked (Tomkins, 2009; Laing and Fossey,
2011). In light of the persistent difficulties of democratic governance, and the creation of the
SPA as an expert body, the study presents an original conceptual framework outlining
an ‘epistocratic and deliberative’ approach to police governance. The framework seeks
to reconcile democracy and expertise and offers a prescriptive solution to resolve the
underlying problems of police governance. The study applies the notion of epistocracy
or knowledge-based rule (Estlund, 2003, 2008) to the role of experts in institutional
settings (Holst, 2012; Holst and Mollander, 2014). Conceiving the SPA as an
institutional epistocracy, it is argued that such an arrangement needs to be underpinned
by the right Composition, and that it needs Power, and Autonomy in order to function
effectively and independently. It is further argued that principles of Deliberation,
including reasoning and justification, can further strengthen epistocratic governance
arrangements, as well as providing a crucial democratic dimension.
The analysis of the SPA provides a strong empirical basis for the framework. The study
shows that while the SPA was created as a professional body of experts, it was unable
to resolve the underlying problems of police governance in its first three years. This
was due to inadequacies in its composition resulting from insufficient expertise and a
lack of training for new board members, differing interpretations of its role and
statutory powers, and external pressures and impositions resulting in a lack of
autonomy. Looking to recent developments, the study suggests that deliberative
principles are now implicit in the SPA’s approach to more proactive scrutiny, which
has started to serve to alleviate some shortcomings and problems it encountered in its
formative years. However, the study concludes that further strengthening of the SPA’s
composition, clarity around its role and powers, greater autonomy, and explicit focus
on deliberative principles is needed
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