Author: Satenik Margaryan

Miami Climate Gentrification | Razing Liberty Square | Full Documentary | Independent Lens



Jan 29, 2024 #ClimateChange #Documentary #IndieLensPBS

Official website: https://to.pbs.org/IL_2024 | #IndieLensPBS In the heart of Liberty City, Miami, lies an enduring symbol of historical segregation—the city’s longstanding public housing projects. Today, as sea levels continue to rise, the once-elevated areas of this neighborhood have taken on a new identity: prime real estate. Affluent property owners are making a move inland to the higher ground, transforming the community into a speculative market. This shift underscores the stark contrast from its past, as the historically Black neighborhood, once overlooked by developers and policymakers, is now at the center of attention.

Opioids, Inc. (full documentary) | FRONTLINE

From Frontline (Jun 18, 2020): “Opioids, Inc.” tells the inside story of how Insys profited from Subsys, a fast-acting fentanyl-based spray that’s been linked to hundreds of deaths. Tactics included targeting high-prescribing doctors and nurse practitioners known as “whales,” misleading insurers, and holding contests for the sales team: the higher the prescription doses they got doctors to write, the larger the cash prize — despite the dangers to patients. But as the documentary traces in unprecedented detail, the scheme fell apart: With federal prosecutors using anti-racketeering laws designed to fight organized crime, Insys became the first pharmaceutical company to have its CEO sentenced to prison time in federal court in connection with the opioid crisis.

The Collapse Of FTX: Insiders Tell All | CNBC Documentary

From CNBC “In this documentary, CNBC’s Kate Rooney speaks to the people most impacted by the fall of Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire. The in-depth documentary includes a candid interview with former President of FTX US who reveals what it was like to work directly for Bankman-Fried and what red flags concerned him most about the company. FTX investor, Anthony Scaramucci, tells all about his front-row seat to the collapse and what it was like to visit SBF while his empire was crumbling around him.”

Gaslit Nation // Jennifer Taub: White-collar Crime Impacts Us All

Big Dirty Money: The Jennifer Taub Interview

Dec 22, 2020

From Gaslit Nation: “@jentaub: “White-collar crime impacts all of us in ways that don’t always seem visible.” Listen to more of this @gaslitnation episode here: 

https://www.patreon.com/posts/big-dirty-money-45342242

Decolonising Criminology Resource List

Decolonising Criminology Resources

From the Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research: “On this website, you will find a compilation of resources that aim to help understand what decolonisation is, how to include it in the academic curriculum, and its link with the development of criminology.”

Teaching Resources

Decolonising Methodologies

Decolonising Criminology

Diverse Criminological Perspectives

Deep End of the Pool: Act 1

If You Cannot Afford an Attorney, Some Random Dude Will Be Appointed to You

From This American Life: “A lawyer with almost no experience in criminal law is assigned to a criminal case with a sentence of 20 years to life. This happened because, in Louisiana, like in a few states, public defenders’ offices are so short-staffed that courts are ordering private attorneys to take pro bono clients. Reporter David Zax tells the story. (29 minutes)”

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/595/deep-end-of-the-pool/act-one-1

The Chinese-run Slave Armies Powering a New Kind of Golden Triangle Cybercrime

From the Underworld Podcast’s description of the episode: “When the pandemic took punters from Southeast Asia’s most notorious gambling dens, their gangster owners turned to the web, entrapping thousands of unwitting slaves and putting them to work in high-rises, aiming to scam western marks out of millions.

Nathan Paul Southern and Lindsey Kennedy took a trip along the Mekong this summer. What they discovered was incredible and tragic in equal measure—and few are doing anything to combat it.

Underworld is a podcast about organized crime around the world, by reporters Danny Gold and Sean Williams. From Balkan warlords to Brooklyn wiseguys, we’ll expose the barely-visible networks that affect everyone’s lives. Bringing our experience hunting some of the world’s most dangerous people, we’ll show how gangs fought to the top of their food chains – and how some got cut down to size.”

Police Corruption in Baltimore

From the American Scandal podcast description: “In 2017, seven members of an elite Baltimore police unit called the Gun Trace Task Force were arrested and charged with robbery, extortion, fraud, and selling drugs seized during police operations. While some were quick to dismiss the arrests as a case of a few bad apples, a subsequent investigation revealed a culture of corruption within the Baltimore Police Department that had allowed rogue cops to flourish.”

4-5 episodes in the series, follow the same link.