More Thinking Allowed

Another gem from Laurie Taylor, this week's Thinking Allowed program (podcast) features Pierre Bourdieu's old mate Loïc Wacquant, Professor of Sociology at the University of California and author of Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity, discussing the history and structure of the U.S. penal system with Nicola Lacey, Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Theory at the Mannheim Centre for the Study of Criminology and Criminal Justice in the Department of Law at the London School of Economics and author of The Prisoners' Dilemma: Political Economy and Punishment in Contemporary Democracies.

The program also features my old personal tutor, the charming and top bloke A. C. Grayling, Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford, discussing the purpose, perils, pitfalls, and peculiarities of classification.