How to make friends and influence yourself: lessons from prison on fighting isolation

In this episode, James & Claire are joined by Dr Katherine Albertson, a senior lecturer in Criminology at Sheffield Hallam University. Following on from our previous episode on radicalisation, we look at what happens to those people who are in the criminal justice system - those who by the very nature of where they are can't place their attention in the same way, and who often don't have attention placed on them. We hear how many feel isolated from the rest of society, and how peer mentors can help them acclimatise to a new and often scary environment.

Dr Katherine is here: https://www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-profiles/katherine-albertson

About The Show:

Can We Have Your Attention? is a podcast exploring the unseen forces that shape what we see, what we buy, and who we become. Hosted by Claire Coady and James Wickham, we dive into the mechanics of the Attention Economy to understand how value is created (and manipulated) in a distracted world.

Production Credits:

Hosted by: Claire Coady & James Wickham

Produced by: Phonogram https://www.phonogram.co.uk

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