Mr Justice was once a sombre and dignified man. Grandiosity was his typical reaction to people’s misfortune. The thing with…
Criminality and Criminal Justice in Contemporary Poland: Sociopolitical Perspectives – book review
Social construction of criminality varies between countries as much as the administration of punishment takes different forms in respective criminal…
Unpaid work under socialism
Courtesy of the Polish National Digital Archives Unpaid work under socialism was called ‘czyn społeczny’, also known as the Russian…
Parrots in a courtroom
Last week I paid a flying visit to Warsaw. After a lovely catch-up session, a good friend of mine, who…
Necrobusiness and the crime of ‘skin-hunting’ in Poland
‘Skin-hunting’ is a term coined by Polish journalists to name a specific system of corruption that came to light in…
What now criminology?
‘Everything starts at the crime scene’, said Professor Peter Squires in the first session of the British Society of Criminology conference,…
The indebted Polish fathers
Penal landscapes of all countries are built upon socially constructed crimes and punishments. For me it is the penal anomalies…
The Polish ‘crimewave’ in the UK?
The crime–migration nexus, which is based on a popular view that migration contributes to a rise in crime, dominates the…
The Supreme Court in pictures
Turning academic concept into art
At first, I wasn’t particularly enthusiastic about this idea. Presenting my doctoral research through an academic poster seemed to be…
Photographic perspectives
Hegningarhúsið – the oldest prison in Iceland (built in 1874), located in the heart of Rejkjavik.
The prison life of interwar Poland
All below pictures are reproduced courtesy of the Polish National Digital Archives Prisoners working at a forge, Święty Krzyż, 1933…
4 years
Four years ago tomorrow I started my career as a court interpreter. I got on a train at Clapham Junction…
Långholmen Prison
Långholmen is a former Stockholm prison that in 1975 was turned into a hotel. The prison is also known as…
Photographic perspectives
Norrmalmstorg, Stockholm, Sweden. In August 1973 four Kreditbanken employees were taken hostage during a robbery that took place at Norrmalmstorg. While…
The unbearable lightness of imposing suspended sentence
Whenever I find myself overpowered by qualitative explorations, I viscerally rush to look into whatever quantitative data I have at my…
A quick Sunday reflection on how I (don’t) drain the public purse
From time to time when in court I hear about how we interpreters drain the public purse and cost British…
Photographic perspectives
A female militia officer performing traffic control, Warsaw, 22/09/1978. Source: The National Digital Archives in Poland.
A year full of Crime
For the past 12 months I dealt with Crime every single day therefore I will risk saying that Crime, to…
RJ & Photography
Around this time last year I became interested in photography. I bought my first DSLR camera and began to explore…
