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Nick, John and Robin wrestle with broad issues related to drug and alcohol policy, social impact, and accompanying interventions.
![Fergus McNeill on Scottish criminal Justice and David Garland's 'Culture of Control' [15 mins]](https://fead.org.uk/files/images/video_thumbs/fergus1.jpg)
MINI LECTURE 15 minutes
Fergus talks about Bourdieu’s concepts and their usefulness in understanding cultures including the culture and pressures within a particular field. ‘Habitus is a durable disposition that an actor in a given social field develops’ that enables you to ‘play the game that’s played’
‘Frame, field and surround.’ Fergus says ‘there’s nothing more practical than a good theory’. He describes the need to be able to use the right processes by asking the right questions.
Fergus says he knows what his place on the spectrum is, but he is glad people take different positions to his own.
![Fergus McNeill on William White, 'desistance', and human development [10 mins]](https://fead.org.uk/files/images/video_thumbs/fergus5.jpg)
10 minute clip
Fergus talks about the ‘change process’ and how it is traditionally ‘taken over’ by the professional actor. He talks about William White, and the central process of change we are trying to enable.
Fergus talks about the ‘change process’ and how it is traditionally ‘taken over’ by the professional actor. He talks about William White, and the central process of change we are trying to enable.
![Fergus McNeill on desistance, and desistance supporting communities [18 minutes]](https://fead.org.uk/files/images/video_thumbs/fergus6.jpg)
18 minute clip
Fergus says that focussing on ‘human capital’ is too crude. He says he respects criminal programmes and the evidence behind them, but that the findings got conflated with public service managerialism.
Fergus says that focussing on ‘human capital’ is too crude. He says he respects criminal programmes and the evidence behind them, but that the findings got conflated with public service managerialism.
Fergus says restorative approaches stand a better chance of resolving the underlying problems related to criminal justice
Fergus says we need to help people to navigate a social space allowing people to live their lives beyond their punishment.
Fergus says a recognition of ambivalences and moral complexities would move us towards a better analysis of what we want such services for
Fergus says politicians can ‘binge’ on crime. He says there is a current relief in Scotland of relentless popularism. ‘There is no safer society than a fairer society’.