Dr Andreas Aresti is a senior lecturer in criminology at the University of Westminster and has first-hand experience of the criminal justice system and prison.
Andreas is committed to penal reform and is actively involved in a number of projects which aim to improve the lives of those currently incarcerated. He is involved in a number of projects that emphasise the importance of education in prisons and the role it can play in facilitating desistance from crime (the process through which people cease and refrain from offending). He is a founding member of British Convict Criminology, a relatively new critical perspective (consisting of ‘ex-con’ and non-ex-con academics) that challenges traditional understandings of crime, the penal system, prisoners’/former prisoners and how such matters are conceptualised, represented and discussed.
In this video, Andreas draws on his experience of prison and his research to explain why he thinks prison doesn’t work, and he discusses an emerging organisation - Convict Criminology.
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