Can Criminals Say Sorry?

Episode 1 | Canny Cops

A local cop takes on a well-known resident and her housemate who's heading to jail for the first time.

Prisons | Crime - Are We Tough Enough?

Chris Daw and Ayesha Nayyar look at what role our prisons should play in the fight against crime.

The Mystery of Murder: A Horizon Guide

Michael Mosley uses the BBC archives to chart scientists' progress as they probed the mind of the murderer to try to understand why pe...

Timothy Evans and Derek Bentley | The Ruth Ellis Files: A Very British Crime Story

The narrator discusses the introduction of the defence of diminished responsibility in Eng...

Kids Behind Bars

Documentary about youngsters in prison and correctional institutions in Britain and around the world. Some children are serving heavy sentences for petty of...

Episode 1 | The Ruth Ellis Files: A Very British Crime Story

Series re-examining the Ruth Ellis case. Gillian Pachter takes a forensic look at the police investigation and d...

Episode 2 | Canny Cops

A local cop takes on a well-known resident, and a stabbing suspect goes on the run.

Introduction to attachment | In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and the Mind

The key theories of Lorenz, Bowlby and Harlow are explained in this introduction to...

1: Conflict | The Experiment (2002)

1/4 prt documentary series in which 14 men are divided into inmates & guards & locked up for 8 days in purpose-built jail. The effects of...

1: DNA | Catching Britain's Killers: The Crimes That Changed Us

The story of the hunt to find the killer of two teenage girls in 1980s Leicestershire which led to an extraor...

1: Victorian Spies | The History Of Surveillance

Jeremy Bentham’s revolutionary prison, the Panopticon, where all inmates were constantly visible, spawned a culture of mug-s...

10/05/2016 | Science Cafe

Adam Walton looks at the work of the National Centre for Mental Health in Cardiff, where scientists are exploring the question of whether genes aff...

2: Double Jeopardy | Catching Britain's Killers: The Crimes That Changed Us

Shocked by the failure to convict her daughter's killer, a mother fights for justice by taking on...

2: Order | The Experiment (2002)

1/4 prt documentary series in which 14 men are divided into inmates & guards & locked up for 8 days in purpose-built jail. The effects of in...

3: Interrogation | Catching Britain's Killers: The Crimes That Changed Us

The story of how a 1970s miscarriage of justice involving three teenage boys would lead to a radica...

3: Rebellion | The Experiment (2002)

3/4-part documentary series in which fifteen men are locked up for eight days in a purpose-built prison to enable psychologists to study...

4: Tyranny | The Experiment (2002)

Fifteen men are locked up for eight days in a purpose-built prison so that psychologists can investigate the nature of power. Tonight the ...

A Different Brain | Louis Theroux

Louis takes a look at the issues that some of the estimated one million people in the UK living with the long-term effects of a brain injur...

Banged up and Left to Fail?

Student Natalie, who was repeatedly in and out of the criminal justice system during her teens, explores the impact being locked up has had on yo...

Behind Bars | Youth Nation: Changing the World

Richard Blackwood hosts youth talk show about young people in prison, discussing what young people need after prison and how t...