Are you aware of your own unconscious prejudice?

Are you prejudiced? What do you really think about people with mental health issues in the criminal justice system? An online research study, run by Meagan Hanley, an MSc Forensic Psychology Student at Birmingham City University and Dr. Chrisa Pornari, a senior lecturer at Birmingham City University, aims to track the subconscious and conscious attitudes we have about people…

June 17, 20210Comments

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Do Something Good

Do Something Good and get an Original Artwork - ONLY 7 AVAILABLE Get an original piece of art if you pledge £50 or more to our CrowdJustice appeal and support mental health reform for incarcerated women The View is supporting a legal case against a key NHS trust for more transparency and better mental health services for…

June 10, 20210Comments

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“Why am I stuck here with no mental health support?”

Becks is an IPP prisoner who was given a tariff of 17 months and 21 days. She is still in custody nearly 14 years later. Becks received a diagnosis of Adult ADHD just after she was released from prison last year. This has helped her to understand the negative effects ADHD has had on her…

May 12, 20210Comments

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No, 500 times NO

No, 500 Times NO The View urges you to support our call for the release of incarcerated women who are not dangerous or a risk to themselves or society and imprisoned, by writing to your MP. We ask that your MP contacts the Secretary of State for Justice, raise our concerns and request the Ministry of…

May 6, 20210Comments

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Care not Cages

Our Spring 2021 issue features Sue Wheatcroft, a former prisoner with a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), “Why are there so many women with Borderline Personality Disorder in prison?” BPD is the most common personality disorder among women, both in prison and the community. It is estimated that around 20% of women in UK prisons have…

May 3, 20210Comments

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Mayors for London but what about Women?

On Wednesday 21st April, End Violence Against Women, Imkaan and Women’s Resource Centre hosted a Mayoral hustings with the candidates for the upcoming Mayor of London election and representatives standing for election at the local government elections. As the elections draw nearer, The View joined in the hustings to hear what mayoral candidates were pledging to…

May 1, 20210Comments

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Harriet Taylor Mill on Domestic Violence, Sentencing & Punishment

Harriet Taylor (1807-1858) was a radical reformer, philosopher, political economist and feminist. Her contribution to both theory and practice has been generally overlooked, like that of many women throughout history. In Taylor’s case this has been compounded by the fact she married the famous British thinker and reformer, John Stuart Mill, whose legacy has tended…

September 17, 20200Comments

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A philosophy for life (not just the armchair) – Ellie Robson

The history of philosophy is a history of men talking to men, about other men. The ambitious minds of Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Kant and Hume (to name just a few!) have dominated and dictated our definition of ‘philosophy’ throughout history. While impressive and fixating, this exclusively male story has systematically overlooked the lives and…

September 15, 20200Comments

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In It Together – By MM McCabe

Philosophy has long occupied a position of privilege: dominated by great white male figures, speaking to us through difficult language and harder concepts, and allowing the reader only to aspire to such deep thought. The history of philosophy – as Jessica Leech reminded us, The View blog 8th July 2020 – is often a history…

September 13, 20200Comments

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Rehabilitation Centres to Reinvent Prisoners?

This is a call to action for everyone and anyone who understands that it is important for us to strive for a better quality of life for all, including those who may have committed a crime. . Human beings have the ability to accumulate trauma in their subconscious mind which then plays out as specific coping behaviours…

August 7, 20200Comments

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