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 the first part of this two part blog post, Deborah H. Drake and David Scott explore questions relating to prison abolitionism.
David Scott outlines how to urgently reduce the prison population in today's article.
In this blog, David Scott explores the demand for drugs in prisons.
In this post, Deborah H. Drake and David Scott explore mental health problems and prisons.
In this important article, Rod Earl discusses the need to recall anti-racism in criminology.
Today's post features David Scott, who outlines the need to consider the prison as a space of institutionally-structured violence.
In this article, Steve Tombs applies the concept of corporate manslaughter to cases of prison deaths.
In today's post, David Scott investigates self-inflicted deaths in prison.
Giulia Zampini from the University of Greenwich presents thoughts on the Harm and Evidence Research Collaborative conference.
Ross Fergusson considers the stark choices that the policy swings of successive governments now present to many 16-17-year-olds.