Britain`s Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, the Rt Hon Jack Straw MP, speaks about punishment and reform in the criminal justice system.
Historian Susan Wise Bauer discusses the culture of public confession, and considers parallels between political, religious and public life in the US and the UK.
Rageh Omaar, presenter on the Al-Jazeera English Channel
Peter Cove, Founder and Managing Director of America Works and
David Freud, Chief Executive of the Portland Trust and author of the 2007 DWP review
Reducing Dependency, Increasing Opportunity: options for the future of welfare to work.