International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy

Monish Bhatia is a Lecturer in Criminology at Birkbeck, University of London. He has worked for over a decade on rights of people seeking asylum, and is a member of the Scottish Refugee Council and Right to Remain boards. In 2015, he won a Carnegie Trust grant to study destitution, drug use and ‘crimes’ among asylum seekers. In 2012–15, Monish was a co-coordinator of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control, and editor of its Justice, Power and Resistance journal. He co-edited Media, Crime and Racism (Palgrave, 2018) and Minorities, Crime and (In) justice (Justice, Power and Resistance journal, 2018).