Criminal Justice Research Group: What is justice?

We would like to welcome our guest speaker Jo Phoenix, Professor of Criminology.

This is the fifth guest-speaker event held by the Criminal Justice Research Group, on the theme of ‘What is justice?’. Jo Phoenix will address issues including the following:

• How ‘justice’ can be accessed if the costs of a case could run to hundreds of thousands of pounds.
• Taking the Open University to an employment tribunal for discrimination, bully and harassment, constructive dismissal and post-employment victimisation on the basis of gender-critical beliefs.
• How the funds were raised via a Crowdjustice Fund, and the issues this entailed.

Jo Phoenix is Professor of Criminology at the University of Reading. Jo has researched sex, gender, and justice for over three decades. Her study and writing includes subjects including managerialism and ethics in the production of criminological knowledge, prostitution, prostitution policy reform, child sexual exploitation, youth justice practice and policy. Jo’s most recent research concerns academic freedom, politics ethics and research and sex, gender, gender identity, and criminal justice policy.

Professor Phoenix took her former employer (The Open University) to an Employment Tribunal, and won her case. She crowd-funded the costs of her case via Crowdjustice; more details here.

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