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Thinking Allowed: 'Lad culture' in higher education - Fugitives from the law in Philadelphia

05/11/2014

'Lad culture' in higher education - Fugitives from the law in Philadelphia

BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, 'Lad culture' in higher education - Fugitives from the law in Philadelphia

Laurie Taylor explores the lives of African-American men caught up in webs of criminality.

Laurie Taylor explores the lives of African-American men caught up in webs of criminality in Philadelphia and looks at lad culture in higher education in the UK.

Fugitives from the law: Laurie Taylor talks to Alice Goffman, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, about 'On the Run' her study of the lives of African American men caught up in webs of criminality in Philadelphia. She spent six years living in a neighbourhood marked by pervasive policing, violence and poverty. She argues that high tech surveillance and arrest quotas have done little to reduce crime or support young lives in the most disadvantaged parts of the US. They're joined by Professor Dick Hobbs, Criminologist at the University of Essex. Also, Alison Phipps, Director of the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Sussex, explores the rise of 'lad culture' in Higher Education and its relationship to the 'marketisation' of learning. 
Producer: Jayne Egerton.

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