Dr Sarah Waite

@drswaite.bsky.social

Senior Lecturer in Criminology

Via FOI we'd found out that people who committed childhood offences (under age 18) have to declare them in DBS checks decades later - a 70 year old had to declare obstructing a constable as a teenager & a 67 year old to disclose shoplifting committed before 1973 www.thetimes.com/article/291a...

DBS checks force pensioners to disclose childhood crimes

Call for reform of criminal record disclosures as people who have not transgressed since the 1960s are made to explain minor offences

thetimes.com

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Funny how European scholars keep using “risk profiles” instead of “control profiles” to refer to group-based profiling of people. ‘Risk’ both sanitises and legitimises the deeply political, dehumanising, and subjugating logics (and legacies) of racialised group-based profiling.

Gendering Jail Craft: Preparing Officers for the Realities of Women’s Prisons? This blog shares some preliminary findings from a study tracking the development of graduate prison officers following gender-informed training @drswaite.bsky.social on British Society of Criminology wp.me/p9dqlz-izE

Gendering Jail Craft: Preparing Officers for the Realities of Women’s Prisons?

This blog shares some preliminary findings from a study tracking the development of graduate prison officers following gender-informed training

wp.me