We are delighted to be hosting an online panel discussion on Monday 3rd July at 7.00 pm in response to the film A Second Chance by BATFA Award winning director Rex Bloomstein. This powerful documentary focusses on the importance of providing opportunities for training and employment in the rehabilitation of both female and male offenders.
We will be sending out a link to the film the week before the event. In the meantime you can watch the trailer here:
Our panelists include:
Jo Phoenix author and Professor of criminology in the School of Law at the University of Reading. Her research interests include sex, gender, sexualities and justice, youth justice and punishment, the production of criminological knowledge and research ethics. She has studied and written about a wide variety of subjects including managerialism and ethics in the production of criminological knowledge, prostitution, prostitution policy reform, child sexual exploitation, youth penalty and youth justice practice and policy. Her most recent research concerns academic freedom, politics ethics and research and sex, gender, gender identity and criminal justice policy. Jo is also a trustee at the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies.
Rhona Hotchkiss trained as a nurse, specialising in ITU. She worked as an advisor to Scottish Government before going into management consultancy working in healthcare and education. Rhona spent the last 10 years of her working life as a Prison Governor, in charge of both male and female prisons. She managed the project to develop the new women’s prison in Scotland. Since retiring in 2019, Rhona has written and spoken extensively about the need for women’s prisons to be single sex and the impact of gender identity. She has featured on STV and BBC TV and Radio.
We will also be joined by two female former prisoners.
This event is free to attend, but booking is essential: