About the Podcast
Hosts:
Dr. Taimi Castle is a Professor of Justice Studies and Director of the Mahatma Gandhi Center for Global Nonviolence at JMU. She is the mother of two panther knights: Sir Davos & Sir Brienne.
Dr. Benjamin Meade is an Associate Professor of Justice Studies at JMU. He has an interest in many things geek-related, particularly Star Trek, Godzilla, Batman, and gaming.
Editing/recording: Jenna Polk & Zachary Williams
Music: Nick Branson
Episode 8: Police brutality
Episode Description:
What is police brutality?
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Episode 7: Climate justice
Episode Description:
What is climate justice?
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Episode 6: Mass murder prevention Part 2
Episode Description:
How do we prevent mass murder?
Links:
Episode 6: Mass Murder Prevention Part 1
Episode 5: What is a vigilante?
Episode Description:
How do we define vigilantism?
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Episode 4: What is mass murder?
Episode Description:
How do we define mass murder? What are family annihilators and workplace avengers?
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Episode 3: What is solitary confinement?
Episode Description:
What is solitary confinement and how it is used in jails and prisons in the U.S?
Links:
- Administrative Segregation in US Prisons (NIJ)
- Mental Health Issues in Confinement (Crime & Delinquency)
Episode 2: Ocean trash and justice
Episode Description:
What is distributive, environmental, and procedural justice? How does it relate to ocean trash?
Links:
- Advancing Ocean Justice (Ocean Conservancy)
- U.N. agrees high seas treaty to protect ocean life (Washington Post)
- Environmental justice impacts of marine litter and plastic pollution (United Nations)
Episode 1: What is Criminology?
Episode Description:
What is criminology? What are some of the misperceptions about the discipline?
Links:
- Criminology and the Idaho murders (NY Times)
- CSI Effect (Cornell Law School)
Introduction
