An eye for an eye...

In 2020 the UK formally withdrew from the European Union after the 2016 EU referendum. As a result of Brexit the UK is no longer restrained by EU bureaucracy; a proposition many found attractive. However, a direct and somewhat alarming consequence of this is no longer having to adhere to the checks and balances of membership which require robust human rights across the member states. As the UK moves into territory where refugees are deported to Rwanda and threats to leave the European Convention on Human Rights are made by the Conservative government (Spurrier, 2022) the reality of other controversial responses to controlling the population becomes conceivable. This could include the re-introduction of the death penalty...

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Josie Brett has spent 20 years working in the voluntary sector supporting marginalised people who find themselves on the periphery of society through disability, age, economic and social class.Alongside this work Josie has studied Criminology as an Undergraduate and Postgraduate, earning an MA in Crime and Justice in 2022.