In this series of blogs, HERC takes a multidisciplinary approach to exploring harmful evidence and evidencing harm. We consider the roles of harm and crime, uses and abuses of evidence in criminal justice and criminalisation to de-criminalisation.
** All views in the blogs are the author’s own.
Sharon Hartles, one of our MA students in Crime and Justice, explores how homelessness has been criminalised in this week's post.
In today's post, Daniel McCulloch explores participatory visual methods.
In this article, Dr David Scott and Professor Joe Sim discuss the dangers of life within prison walls for both prisoners and staff.
James Mehigan examines the brilliant Ear Hustle podcast in this post, which depicts life in San Quentin Prison.
In this article, Keir Irwin-Rogers investigates the use of statistics in regards to recent reports on gangs and youth violence.
In today's post, Steve Tombs discusses the struggles for residents and others to be heard nearly a year on from the Grenfell fire.
This article by PhD candidate Anna Colom is a personal reflection on the symposium Hostile Environments: The Politics of (Un)Belonging, co-organised by Victoria Canning, Gabi Kent (Harm & Evidence Research Collaborative) and Umut Erel for the WhoAreWe collaboration at the TATE Exchange.
In this post, Julia Downes provides a complaint against the screening of the film Injustice.
Recent 'petty' and 'vindictive' government policy is discussed in this post by David Middleton.
In this blog post, Evgenia Lliadou briefly explores several monuments to border crossings.