Systemic Racism in Complicity Law
Description
In this episode, Juliet Van Gyseghem interviews Nisha Waller. Nisha is a final year PhD candidate in the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford and is a researcher at charity law practice APPEAL. Nisha's PhD research focuses on complicity law (commonly referred to as 'joint enterprise') and its relationship to the criminalisation of young black men. Over the course of her doctorate, Nisha has visited a number of prisons in England, interviewing young black men convicted as secondary parties to murder. Her research is also informed by interviews with legal practitioners and the families of those convicted.
JENGbA's website: https://jointenterprise.co/
Key reports on JE: https://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/publications/dangerous-associations-joint-enterprise-gangs-and-racism, https://barrowcadbury.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Stories-of-Injustice-women-and-JE.pdf, https://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/publications/usual-suspects-second-edition
APPEAL https://appeal.org.uk/
United States
