Name: Criminal Cultures – the myths and the realities
Start: 2026-03-20T18:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-03-20T20:00:00+02:00
Location: Fredrikinkatu 20 B 9 , 00120 Helsinki, Finland

$Criminal Cultures \u2013 the myths and the realities$

Michael Hutchinson-Reis returns to Finnbrit to host a presentation and discussion based on his own professional and personal experiences. Michael grew up on a council estate in Islington in central London. He worked as a court officer in the juvenile courts and as a community social worker on Broadwater Farm in Tottenham. He worked in youth offender management in Hackney, was team leader of the Police Committee and Police Monitoring Unit in Lambeth and a Safety Unit-Civil Emergency team member. He became team leader of a series of National Probation Service public protection teams across London, and a member of other multi-disciplinary district public protection teams. He has been a social policy, policing, community safety and crime reduction researcher and advisor. This included comparative research on policy and practice in Northern Ireland, Finland, Estonia, Russia, the U.S.A. and Caribbean. He has also been an operational community development and crime reduction project manager in London.
As a journalist, sociologist and multi-media professional, Michael looked at the cultural presentations of certain locations, communities and their assumed association with stereotyped criminal subcultures.
The presentation will be followed by a discussion with time for questions.
Please note that for reasons of confidentiality, some references will not be identified in detail. The presentation and discussion will be conducted in accordance with the Chatham House Rule [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House_Rule].The rule was created in 1927 and refined in 1992. Since its most recent refinement in 2002, the rule states