Prosecuting Rap: Criminal Justice and UK Black Youth Expressive Culture

On this project I worked as a researcher for a year, examining how rap music and black youth culture have come to be used as evidence in criminal court cases. Throughout my time on this project, I was handling sensitive data, analysing the data and was co-writing an article for an academic journal alongside head of the project, Dr. Eithne Quinn and Kamila Rymajdo. My academic discipline sits in critical and cultural criminology, in which I then apply to my creative and cultural work which focuses on youth culture, identity, blackness and brand work. I worked closely with newspaper articles and reports, critically critiquing criminological and sociological theories, in order to produce and propose my own theory towards our work. https://djmag.com/longreads/prosecuting-rap-how-uk-legal-project-fighting-use-rap-lyrics-court https://www.vice.com/en/article/4ayp5d/drill-lyrics-used-against-young-black-men-court-uk