They Drop You Like a Hot Potato

Lukas was incarcerated for a white collar crime in Australia. Upon his release several years ago, Lukas, who has always been interested in academia, began to research and study educational opportunities for incarcerated people from the perspective of someone who has been incarcerated himself. He is particularly interested in convict criminology, or the study of incarceration and education through the lens of lived experience. Lukas discusses this field of study in this episode and in his own podcast, Talking Time with Lukas and Alicia. In this episode, Lukas and our hosts discuss re-entry topics including the strain incarceration puts on relationships, raising children post-incarceration, and how to control the narrative around holding a criminal record.

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Convict Criminology Definition:
The concept that you have an entire field of academia that is about penology, prisons, crimes, and what causes crimes and this has been devoid of those who have been inside
Convict Criminology is trying to bring people with lived experiences to the forefront so they can be a part of the conversation
Lived Experience
People with personal experience being incarcerated
Steven Richards
One of the Founders of Convict Criminology
White Collar Crime
“The term "white-collar crime" refers to financially motivated, nonviolent crime committed by businesses and government professionals. It was first defined by the sociologist Edwin Sutherland in 1939 as "a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of their occupation"
Southern Queensland
One of the few Australian universities with any criminal justice programs for formerly incarcerated people
Post Incarceration Syndrome
“is a mental disorder that occurs in individuals either currently incarcerated or recently released; symptoms are found to be most severe for those who encountered extended periods of solitary confinement and institutional abuse”

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