An early interest in crime
I grew up in west London and in my late teens, a lot of my friends and people I knew and hung around with ended up having dealings with the police and being sent to prison for various reasons. I was also studying A-level psychology of crime at the time and what I was learning and what I was seeing happening to people I knew didn’t seem to correlate. I wasn’t sure about going to university, but two weeks before the Ucas deadline I discovered a criminology course and I thought it would help me understand what I was seeing going on around me. I went to Roehampton University to study criminology and social anthropology, very much with an anti-police, anti-prison, anti-system attitude. However, what I learned was that the police, prisons, the system will always exist – what we need to do is try to make them work better.
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