Liamcrime

It has been all over the news that Boris Johnson has put £3.6 Billion into the funding of 20,000 new police officers and has ‘created’ 10,000 more prison spaces. ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49318400 ). This blog aims to critically examine the portrayal of violence with its causations and solutions through the Neo- conservative lens and its distorted realities as well as methods of Conservative retention of power through these right realist approaches concerning crime and justice. It can be argued that this right realist approach is deeply flawed and problematic. Firstly this policy simply is a case of exploring the issue of a rise in violent crime as being an issue to tackle with punitive measures. The individual is to blame entirely and rational choice is where we must lie our societal blame. However it is apparent that structural issues and social harms fuelled through consumer capitalism and Neoliberal social policy is not considered here. Since the Conservatives have come...

Ross Kemp is best known as playing the role of Grant Mitchell in EastEnders, more recently however he has become a world known journalist and political investigator. Ross Kemp has been to the most dangerous parts of the world, he has been to war torn Syria to interview active ISIS fighters, as well as travelling to the world’s most dangerous regions which are torn apart by deadly gang rivalries and political instability. Ross Kemp has shown time and time again that it is possible to gain access to these communities. There is a clear need to investigate and hear the stories of those living in these communities whose lives have been turned upside down by the brutal mechanisms of gang culture. It is apparent to me, that the gang members, who agreed to be interviewed wanted to be heard. When Ross visited Moscow, he interviewed members of a far-right Neo Nazi group.   They appeared only too happy to be interviewed, which would have given them a vocal platform and a sense of recog...

Geoffroy Wansell is a leading playwright and political author. He taught British Politics at the University of Sheffield. In 2011, he published ‘the bus stop killer’ this book is all about Levi Bellfield now identified as Yusuf Rahim. The book details a heavy focus upon his victims, their personalities and characteristics which made them targeted to be battered, raped and murdered by Levi Bellfield. The context is very verbally graphic, detailed and emotive. Throughout reading the book, I became disturbed by what I was reading on the account of what Bellfield did to his numerous victims. The stalking, the verbal sexual confrontation of young girls, his fascination of young school girls, and the ‘image’ of a school girl. Arguably he is a paedophile. Not only this, details of how he treated his numerous sexual and committed relationships which were evidently controlling, toxic and abusive. Many thoughts ran through my head as to why the women in question stayed by his side. Was it...