Amol Rajan
speaker
3,997 appearances
23 recordings
6 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 16 Jul
Amol Rajan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It is called restorative justice.
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He thinks this principle that people who've done bad things, including kill people, should meet the victims of their crime can reduce reoffending by 80 odd percent and transform society.
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our justice sector, our criminal justice sector, and our prisons, which everyone knows are in big trouble.
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It's actually in a state of total crisis.
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That's just a fact.
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The government believes that.
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Everyone believes that.
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And he believes that restorative justice can play an amazing and vital role in fixing that system.
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But it all starts in that conversation with Jacob with his own, frankly, amazing life story.
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Well, let's, exactly in the spirit that you suggest, let's start, if you like, at the end.
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What is restorative justice?
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And why is restorative justice...
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the radical idea that we need in Britain right now?
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David and Joan being the parents of James Hodgkinson, who died in July 2011.
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So July 2011, this extraordinary backdrop, financial crash, panic, recession, election of a coalition government, which is a novel idea, smartphones, social media.
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Austerity.
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Austerity, hot summer, riots in 2011.
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There's a lot happening there.
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in the national story and there's a lot happening in your life meanwhile at home your mum's drinking your younger brother who we'll get to is having a tough time meanwhile a chap called James Hodgkinson goes to watch the cricket at Trent Bridge with his dad and
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I think there's absolutely no doubt you're not someone who's here making excuses.
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