Summary
Prison breaks loom large in both literature and pop culture. But how should we evaluate them ethically? New Generation Thinker Jeffrey Howard asks what a world without prison would look like. His essay explores whether those unjustly incarcerated have the moral right to break out, whether the rest of us have an obligation to help -- and what the answers teach us about the ethics of punishment today.
Jeffrey Howard is an Associate Professor in the Political Science Department at University College London, whose work on dangerous speech has been funded by the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust. You can find him discussing hate speech in a Free Thinking Episode https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0006tnf
New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select ten academics who can turn their research into radio.
Producer: Luke Mulhall
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| 0:39.5 | Hello, I'm Shahed Abari, and welcome to this episode of the Arts and Ideas podcast, |
| 0:44.7 | in which we'll hear an essay from one of the 2019 New Generation thinkers. |
| 0:49.8 | They are early career academics who work with BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research |
| 0:55.1 | Council on a scheme that turns their research into radio. I was one of the first 10 people, |
| 1:01.4 | chosen for the scheme, nearly 10 years ago. In this year's essays, you'll hear topics ranging |
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