Researcher Summary
James is broadly interested in how the state and other powerful actors are held accountable for the harms they cause. This includes the struggle for justice for, amongst others, prisoners, victims of police brutality and other marginalised groups.
He has published books on prison education, joint criminal enterprise and human rights defenders in Israel and Palestine. He is currently working on a book (with Prof Neil Boister and Dr Richard Burchill) about the criminal justice responses to the Christchurch Shootings. It will be published by Canterbury University Press in 2021.