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.
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.
In the first of many posts this year, Catriona Havard explores own race bias as it pertains to identification by eyewitnesses.
In the final article of this year, Steve Tombs examines the many different harms the Grenfell fire caused.
This month's post contains a paper originally given in the House of Commons by David Scott on child prisoners.
In today's article, Deborah H. Drake and David Scott explore the human and economic costs of building prisons.
Steve Tombs provides his response to the consultation by The Chair of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry into its terms of reference.