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What is justice? Who does it serve? Why should you care?When we think about justice, we think about it as an abstract, something that happens to someone else, somewhere else. But justice and the law regulate every aspect of our interactions with each other, with organisations, and with the government. We never think about it until it impacts our lives, or that of someone close.Our guests are women with lived experience of the justice system whether as victims or women who have committed crimes; or people at the forefront of civic action who put their lives on the line to demand a better world..  We ask them to share their insight into how we might repair a broken and harmful system, with humanity and dignity. We also speak with people who are in the heart of the justice system creating important change; climate activists, judges, barristers, human rights campaigners, mental health advocates, artists and healers.

  1. Aug 19

    118. Trauma And Justice: A talk with Criminologist, Hannah Simpson

    Send us Fan Mail Prison is often treated as the answer to women’s harm, but the numbers tell a different story. We sit down with criminologist Hannah Jane Simpson to unpack why women’s incarceration, mental health, trauma, and self-harm are so tightly linked and why “control first” institutions can make recovery harder rather than safer. We talk plainly about what trauma looks like in real life: dysregulation, fear, inconsistency, returning to harmful situations, and struggling to communicate clearly. Hannah explains how these survival responses are too often misread by police, courts, and custody staff as unreliability or manipulation. From self-harm in women’s prisons to the everyday impact of surveillance and lack of privacy, we explore what gender responsive justice should mean in practice: healthcare that works, environments that reduce re-traumatisation, stronger family contact, and support that actually fits women’s pathways into offending. We also dig into domestic abuse and coercive control in the UK, including why incident-based systems struggle to prove pattern-based harm and how “ideal victim” expectations can block accountability. Hannah highlights the need for consistent reporting routes, protective measures, and vulnerable witness support from the very start, not months later when survivors have already disengaged. We close by looking at Scotland’s anti-trafficking strategy and the risk of silencing sex workers when policy is built on assumptions rather than lived experience. If you want smarter conversations about penal reform, trauma-informed practice, coercive control, and real-world justice, listen now, then subscribe, share the episode, and leave us a review. What part of the system most needs to change first? Guest - Hannah Jane Simpson  Host  - Louisa Nabi  Support the show For more unmissable content from The View sign up here

  2. Aug 5

    117. The importance of prison reformation - A talk with Pia Sinha (Prison Reform Trust)

    Send us Fan Mail We’re joined by Pia Sinha, CEO of the Prison Reform Trust, whose career spans prison psychology, youth justice, and governing prisons across the UK. Her starting point is simple and hard to ignore: for many women, custody follows a life of trauma, poverty, domestic abuse, and being failed by the very services that were meant to help. We unpack what prison reform looks like across the whole criminal justice system: pre custody prevention, decent and humane custody, and real resettlement post release. Without the investment into rehabilitation for offenders, “diversion” becomes a slogan rather than a solution, and reoffending becomes predictable. We also talk about lived experience and why listening is not enough when it is tokenistic. Finally, we look at probation pressures, the difference between risk and need, and why relational support beats tick box processes when the goal is safer communities. If you care about public safety, fairness, and what actually reduces reoffending, listen now.  Guest - Pia Sinha  Host - Louisa Nabi  Support the show For more unmissable content from The View sign up here

  3. Jul 1

    116. A talk with Andy West - philosophy behind bars

    Send us Fan Mail Prison is one of the most hidden institutions in the UK, which means our opinions are often built from cinema scenes rather than social reality. We sit down with Andy West to talk about what happens when you bring big questions about freedom, identity, shame, and responsibility into a place designed for control. We explore Andy’s journey from HMP Belmarsh and other London prisons to therapeutic settings like HMP Grendon, and why he keeps returning to the classroom even when the wider system is chaotic and disorganised. He explains why he holds a modest hope for prison education: not a neat ladder of rehabilitation, but a chance for someone to be “somewhere else” for a couple of hours. That shift matters because prison so often forces people to live under the weight of a single past moment, while a good lesson insists on possibility. Andy also takes us behind the scenes of adapting his memoir The Life Inside into the BBC series Waiting for the Out. As executive producer, he describes the push and pull between protecting the “realness” of prison life and letting a story take on its own life through casting, scripts, and performance. That leads to a bigger question about accountability in the criminal justice system: how can prisons be held to account when the public rarely sees them, and when journalists and ordinary citizens struggle to get inside? We talk about differences between men’s and women’s prisons, the role of autonomy, the limits of reform conversations, and why “trauma-informed” language can ring hollow when prison itself can be a trauma. If you care about prison reform, decarceration, rehabilitation, and honest storytelling about UK prisons, this one will stay with you. Subscribe, share with someone who thinks they “know” what prison is like, and leave a review with your biggest takeaway. Support the show For more unmissable content from The View sign up here

  4. Jun 24

    115. Same laws, different realities - a talk with Dr Bisi Akintoye on the treatment of women of colour within the CJS

    Send us Fan Mail This episode we sit down with criminology lecturer and solicitor, Dr Bisi Akintoye, to talk about Black and Brown women within the UK criminal justice system and the importance of recognising intersectionality.  We unpack how Black women and girls become invisible when policy and research default to frameworks built around either race or gender alone. That invisibility has consequences: victims of exploitation can be treated as suspects, safeguarding can be replaced by surveillance, and adultification bias can turn distress into “defiance”. We look at stop and search, strip searches, the lack of disaggregated data, and the quieter forms of control that rarely make headlines, including school exclusion, welfare monitoring, housing insecurity and healthcare neglect. From there we move into the “everyday machinery” of justice, including why magistrates’ courts can amplify stereotypes through speed and routine, and why prison overrepresentation is better understood as the endpoint of multiple system failures rather than individual propensity. We also discuss mother and baby units, maternal separation, and how delayed screening and racialised disbelief of pain can make prison healthcare more dangerous for Black women. For more episodes like this one, follow our podcast on Spotify, Apple Music and our website. If you’re passionate about this topic like we are, delve into Dr Bisi Akintoyes’ work and read her papers and research on the experience of young black individuals within the criminal justice system.  Host - Louisa Nabi  Guest - Dr Bisi Akintoye  Support the show For more unmissable content from The View sign up here

  5. Apr 9

    114. An interview with Jane Ryan

    Send us Fan Mail Jane Ryan, a dedicated human rights lawyer, discusses the failures and biases embedded in our prisons—especially for pregnant women and women of colour. This episode reveals the grim realities hidden behind closed doors—and the urgent need for systemic change. Jane discusses the importance of listening to women’s voices, sharing powerful stories on how systemic neglect and outdated protocols put lives at risk, often ignoring the specific needs of women and marginalized communities. Exploring how negligence perpetuates harm, and although, initiatives are starting to making a difference— much more needs to be done.  Whether you’re passionate about human rights, mental health, or criminal justice reform, this episode will deepen your understanding of how systemic failure affects society’s most vulnerable—and how collective action can turn heartbreaking stories into catalysts for change. Episode disclaimer - Jane Ryan is a human rights solicitor and partner at Bhatt Murphy solicitors. Any views expressed are personal only and not those of Bhatt Murphy. Produced by Louisa Nabi  Support the show For more unmissable content from The View sign up here

  6. Apr 1

    113. An interview with Suzie Miller

    Send us Fan Mail The law wants clean lines and final answers, but people live in grey areas. We sit down with Susie Miller, the playwright behind Inter Alia and the writer of Prima Facie, to unpack what “binary justice” does to real human stories and why courts can struggle when truth, trauma, and context refuse to fit a neat box. Drawing on her background in criminal defence and human rights law, Susie explains how the common law system can chase certainty like science, even when human behaviour is anything but predictable.  From there, we move into the world where many boys are actually learning what power, sex, and relationships mean. Susie talks about the manosphere, online “bro culture”, and the way pornography has become a default form of sex education. We explore how consent myths survive, how “no” can be misread as part of a game, and why the lack of trusted adult conversations leaves teenagers competing for status rather than learning care, communication, and respect. The discussion gets practical and urgent as we examine how some extreme behaviours are being normalised and why silence from fathers, older brothers, coaches, and mentors can leave boys with only peer pressure and algorithms for guidance.  We also dig into why theatre can be a powerful engine for social change. Susie shares what she learned in court about the force of storytelling, and why live performance creates a rare kind of community empathy that streaming cannot replicate. We touch on the audience reactions that surprised her, the responsibility men feel after watching the play, and a possible future work that interrogates juries and the myths we bring into the justice system. Subscribe for more conversations about law, gender, consent education, and cultural change, and if this one stays with you, share it and leave a review. Support the show For more unmissable content from The View sign up here

  7. Mar 25

    112. Wing Tsun Masters - A women's self defence group

    Send us Fan Mail We went to a free women’s self-defence class run by Wing Tsun London in memory of Sarah Everard, and what stayed with us wasn’t bravado, it was clarity. Wing Tsun training makes “safety” feel less like a vague hope and more like a practical skill you can build, step by step, with your own body. We get into the roots of Wing Tsun Masters as a martial art and self-defence system with a history stretching back more than 300 years, including the tradition that it was shaped by a woman and named after Yim Wing Tsun. That origin matters because the methods match the mission: deflection, angles, timing, and simple physics instead of trying to overpower someone head-on. If you’ve ever wondered whether self-defence training can work for smaller frames, this conversation explains why Wing Tsun is often seen as especially effective for women. We also talk about what Wing Tsun London looks like on the ground: multiple schools across the city, a wide age range of students, and a deliberate effort to make training welcoming regardless of gender or background. You’ll hear why women are statistically more likely to be attacked in public yet less likely to attend self-defence schools, and how free classes lower the barriers. A mother and daughter share what changes when you train together, from fitness and focus to the confidence of walking home alone, plus why practising with male students can add realism without losing safety. If you care about women’s safety, practical self-defence, and building confidence through martial arts training, press play. Subscribe, share with someone who walks home late, and leave us a review telling us what would help you feel safer in your own city. A special thanks to Bence Kaposi (Labrat Media founder) who recorded these interviews.  Audio edited by Jamie Warren-Green (Umbrella Audio) Support the show For more unmissable content from The View sign up here

  8. Mar 25

    111. The View 17 Teaser - an overview of the important content leading up to the publication

    Send us Fan Mail Secret classrooms. A decades-long fight for a pardon. A church trying to reckon with slavery. We move through stories that show how justice is pursued when systems stall, deny, or look away and what resilience looks like when it has to be practical, not performative.  We start by sharing reporting from The View magazine: Pro Su Hakim’s grassroots education initiative after the Taliban banned girls from school, and how secret schools and online classes keep learning alive for girls and women across Afghanistan. From there, we revisit the Ruth Ellis case, the last woman executed in the UK, through the eyes of her granddaughter Laura Enston, who is campaigning for a conditional pardon and asking what the justice system failed to see about abuse and violence against women.  We also examine institutional accountability through Project Spire, the Church of England’s £100 million response to historical links to slavery, and why debates about reparative justice are really debates about trust, responsibility, and power. The conversation expands into what gets heard and what gets suppressed, including harassment and what it means when survivor narratives are silenced before the public can read them.  Finally, we connect mental health and social systems: the ADHDAF charity’s origins in a chance private ADHD diagnosis, autism in the justice system and the absence of reasonable adjustments, a women’s self-defence class with Wing Chun London, and the growing recognition of racial trauma as a serious mental health issue shaped by systemic racism. If you care about human rights, mental health, and how societies repair harm, you’ll find plenty to sit with here.  Subscribe for more, share this with someone who loves thoughtful journalism, and leave a review with the question you can’t stop thinking about. Audio Edited by Jamie Warren-Green at Umbrella Audio  Support the show For more unmissable content from The View sign up here

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What is justice? Who does it serve? Why should you care?When we think about justice, we think about it as an abstract, something that happens to someone else, somewhere else. But justice and the law regulate every aspect of our interactions with each other, with organisations, and with the government. We never think about it until it impacts our lives, or that of someone close.Our guests are women with lived experience of the justice system whether as victims or women who have committed crimes; or people at the forefront of civic action who put their lives on the line to demand a better world..  We ask them to share their insight into how we might repair a broken and harmful system, with humanity and dignity. We also speak with people who are in the heart of the justice system creating important change; climate activists, judges, barristers, human rights campaigners, mental health advocates, artists and healers.

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