The View 9 – Summer 2023Description
- The View is back with our 9th digital edition featuring a deep dive into the under-diagnosis of neurodiversity in girls, that may lead to enmeshment with the criminal justice system through poor choices in later life. With a focus on how climate crises affect women and children more gravely, this issue highlights the urgent need to take individual and collective actions now.
How can we get the burning issue of climate change into mainstream awareness? The actions of Just Stop Oil and XR are leaving people indifferent, or worse, annoyed and aggravated. Dr Rupert Read’s new Climate Majority Project calls for a more rational debate, engaging people at the grassroots and senior in-house counsel at leading corporate firms, to bring about a more rational and measured approach to facing the dangers our planet is in.
We meet Dorian Ravenscroft who describes having ADHD as her superpower, and the director of a charity that helps people with neurodiverse conditions in prison, Sarah Templeton. We’ve spoken to serving prison officers who are literally buckling under the weight of trauma while firefighting to keep dysfunctional, dangerous and overcrowded prisons open. Angela Kirwin’s book Criminal takes a look at the justice system and where it is failing all of us, from her unique, insider perspective and justice transformer Pauline McCabe who recently joined the committee which scrutinises deaths in custody laments the English prison estates’ horrific track record and its apparent inability to keep the most vulnerable women in our society safe.
The untimely death of Sinead O’Connor has had us all feeling the frayed edges of our mortality. How many of us will make a real difference, will have the courage to stand up, rip it up, never shut up? And what great cost? We ponder on her immense contribution to feminism, to reform in Ireland and globally and to catching out RTE’s disgraced Ryan Tubridy a decade before the sponsorship scandal caught popular imagination.
Our regular contributor and Just Stop Oil campaigner, Zoe Cohen recounts her personal hell as a defendant at Southwark Crown Court, where the irresponsible judge refused to allow her to bring the defence of necessity in her trail, where she was accused of breaking windows at Barclays Bank, bankers to the oil and gas companies slowly destroying our planet. Criminal justice specialist Andrew Morris writes exclusively to The View about the death sentence that is the outlawed IPP sentence.
The planet is being destroyed. This Conservative government is in the pockets of the oil and gas companies. If the defence if necessity is disallowed now, then when?
A look at the need for openness and transparency in the buildings where justice is served is catalysed in the cathedrals of service designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano and his team, and we’re honoured to present a sneak peek into the justice building his practise is creating in Ontario and the importance of open justice in architecture by leading criminal and human rights Irish lawyer, James MacGuill.
112 pages of compelling content with all the news they don’t want you to read by and for women in the justice system – from the architecture and art of justice to the words and actions that can create meaningful change, there is something for everyone.
