The Ripple Effect: How The Mobile Bust Changed The Game For Criminals

Webwe take our lead from pompa in asking how experiences from the prison classroom flow outwards to the wider public via the ‘ripple effect’ which we ‘revisit’ by.

Webclassroom ﬂow outwards to the wider public via the ‘ripple effect’ which we ‘revisit’ by gathering our data years after the initial ‘ripples’ were caused.

Webthis chapter examines, in depth, the way in which the bulger case has become emblematic of debates surrounding youth crime, and of “evil children.

Webin order to evaluate how former students may or may not have come to act as agents of public criminology, we build on the idea that the course triggers a ‘ripple.