Who Killed Cock Robin? Lyrics on trial – the criminalisation of urban sub-genre music and the defence of Digga D
SUBSCRIBE 28th July 2021
OPINION: Drill and grime music has often been linked (rightly or otherwise) to urban gangs, with claims that lyrics and videos posted on social media are an incitement to violence; but Liverpool John Moores University Policing Studies graduate Gwen Jones argues that the use of Criminal Behaviour Orders to prevent artists recording or publishing new material has criminalised those musical genres, often without evidence of preventing crime.