The View Magazine | Mind Yourself Summer 2022
The View Magazine's Summer 2022 edition highlights the way women are oppressed by the justice system and how, through acts of beauty,rebellion, creativity, protest and action we reclaim our power.
Marina Damji, a third year student at St Andrews University in Edinburgh has written an insightful and important piece on how the law is letting down women who were survivors of abuse, who killed and how the end up in prison - after they have been failed by the agencies and organisations meant to help them. What are the judges thinking? Do they need better training?
Read our in-depth piece on the wasted opportunity to radically reform the Mental Health Act and how the government must stop tinkering at its edges.
Ravi Mahey is a leading family law solicitor advocate and the head of department and a director at one of the UK's biggest law firms Duncan Lewis, she shares her insights on the state of justice and how it might be made fairer.
Lawrence Jones and Jessica Endres are compassionate psychologists working on the frontline of the most traumatised populations . What does trauma informed mean to them? For an insight into how our courts and justice system might serve those involved - from judges to practitioners and victims and defendants, you'll gain an unprecedented insight into what a truly trauma informed system might look like and the good effects it would have.
Protest art by Cookie, a former prisoner reminds us that women are incarcerated in Her Majety's name, at Her Majesty's pleasure - is it time to bring about a revolution and tend this barbaric and harmful system? Sarah Gordon's textile art makes the act of stitching itself a rebellion - every stitch an act of defiance that pierces the fragility of the patriarchal system. Check out The View Collective limited edition fine art prints, starting at just £38 and buy some art with heart. Women who created the art receive 50% of the purchase price, creating a little financial
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in The View Magazine Mind Yourself Summer 2022.