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Thinking Allowed: Stop and search, Cancer patients and welfare reform

16/09/2015

Stop and search, Cancer patients and welfare reform

BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Stop and search, Cancer patients and welfare reform

Laurie Taylor examines the history and future of an often controversial police tactic.

Laurie Taylor examines the history and future of an often controversial police tactic. Plus a look at how the welfare reforms are impacting on cancer patients.

Stop & Search: Laurie Taylor explores a police practice which is seen as a vital tool against crime by law enforcers, but has been dogged by controversy. He's joined by Michael Shiner, Associate Professor of Social Policy at the LSE, and editor of a new collection of research which assesses the use & misuse of the tactic. How did it arise and what is its future?

Also, Suzanne Moffatt, Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University, discusses her study into a group of cancer patients experience of current welfare reforms.

Producer: Jayne Egerton.

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