Can Criminals Say Sorry?

Prisons | Crime - Are We Tough Enough?

Chris Daw and Ayesha Nayyar look at what role our prisons should play in the fight against crime.

Episode 1 | Canny Cops

A local cop takes on a well-known resident and her housemate who's heading to jail for the first time.

Footage from the Stanford prison experiment | The Stanford Prison Experiment

Real footage and interview with a participant showing what it was like to be in the Stanford pri...

Kids Behind Bars

Documentary about youngsters in prison and correctional institutions in Britain and around the world. Some children are serving heavy sentences for petty of...

Restorative justice | What Point Prison? The Debate

An alternative to prison could be restorative justice and we hear a story of when it worked.

The Stanford Prison Experiment

In 1971, a group of American student volunteers adopted the roles of prisoners and guards in a specially controlled environment - it was quick...

Evil place vs good people | The Stanford Prison Experiment

Zimbardo explains the conclusions that he came to from the Stanford prison experiment about whether it was the sit...

Norway's Prison Regime | Would That Work Here?

The re-offending rate of Norway's prisoners is 20 per cent, the lowest in Western Europe. Claire Bolderson asks what the UK le...

Restorative justice as rehabilitation | Can Criminals Say Sorry?

The restorative justice approach can lead to cooperation and reform. A former criminal talks how the process...

Restorative justice process | Can Criminals Say Sorry?

Watch a restorative justice conference in action and how a well planned and supported meeting can help the situation t...

The role of prisons | What Point Prison? The Debate

A debate about what the role and point of prisons are in the UK. Is it a punishment or deterrent?

Zimbardo explains the experiment | The Stanford Prison Experiment

Zimbardo shows how the Stanford prison experiment was set up and what it aimed to show.

Should prisons be tougher? | What Point Prison? The Debate

A discussion about whether prisons should be tougher for inmates in order to be seen as a real deterrent.

1: Conflict | The Experiment (2002)

1/4 prt documentary series in which 14 men are divided into inmates & guards & locked up for 8 days in purpose-built jail. The effects of...

Behind Bars | Youth Nation: Changing the World

Richard Blackwood hosts youth talk show about young people in prison, discussing what young people need after prison and how t...

Episode 2 | Canny Cops

A local cop takes on a well-known resident, and a stabbing suspect goes on the run.

The Prison Restaurant

Documentary going behind-the-scenes at The Clink, a restaurant located within the walls of HMP High Down Prison and mostly staffed by convicted criminals.

Zero Tolerance | Crime Beat

Martyn Lewis visits Middlesbrough, where so-called zero tolerance policies have reduced crime by 25% in just 8 months. A council estate in Northu...

1: DNA | Catching Britain's Killers: The Crimes That Changed Us

The story of the hunt to find the killer of two teenage girls in 1980s Leicestershire which led to an extraor...

1: Victorian Spies | The History Of Surveillance

Jeremy Bentham’s revolutionary prison, the Panopticon, where all inmates were constantly visible, spawned a culture of mug-s...