121. Understanding Violence: Bad People x The Reith Lectures

About this episode

Dr Gwen Adshead discusses the understanding of violence with Amber Haque and Dr Julia Shaw, emphasizing the importance of listening to perpetrators.

Dr Gwen Adshead has spent almost thirty years working with the some of the most violent offenders in prisons and high security psychiatric facilities. Amber Haque and Dr Julia Shaw speak to Dr Gwen Adshead who is delivering this year's BBC Radio 4 Reith Lectures. She tells Bad People that to really understand violence we need to pay more attention to what perpetrators say about it.

People in this episode

Hosts: Amber Haque, Dr Julia Shaw

Guest: Dr Gwen Adshead

Topics covered

• violence
• criminal psychology
• prison systems
• Reith Lectures
• offender rehabilitation

Keywords

• violence
• offenders
• psychology
• prisons
• Reith Lectures
• Dr Gwen Adshead
• Amber Haque
• Dr Julia Shaw

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5 Live

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