Blog

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.

Is technology making your attention span shorter than a goldfish’s?

In this article, Martin Thirkettle and Graham Pike discuss the effect of modern technology on our cognitive abilities.

28th May 2015
Why are the harms caused by poverty so ignored?

This blog by Joanna Mack and Stewart Lansley examines ignorance by the government of poverty harms.

4th May 2015
Dirty hands and Dirty Harry. Can a code of ethics clean up the police?

Louise Westmarland and Helen Kaye discuss the need for a police code of ethics in this month's article.

13th April 2015
Clarkson: The Rich Get Richer, the Poor Get Prison…

In this blog, Steve Tombs discusses Jeremy Clarkson's recent comments on public sector strikes.

31st March 2015
Corporate Killing With Impunity

This post comes from Steve Tombs, who examines the failings of the the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act.

30th March 2015
What can visual attention research tell us about the reliability of eyewitness evidence?

In this article, Gemma Briggs and Louise Westmarland discuss research on visual attention and what it concludes about the reliability of eyewitness testimony.

9th March 2015
Fixed Odds Betting Terminals: the psychology of state-corporate harm maximisation

Steve Tombs and Jim Turner explore the harms caused by the increasing number of Fixed Odds Betting Terminals (FOBTs) in this month's post.

2nd February 2015
Why do people confess to crimes they haven’t committed?

In the first of this year's posts, Catriona Havard and Kim Drake explore why some people give false confessions to crimes.

19th January 2015
Decriminalising drug use: when will the government acknowledge the harm our current laws cause?

In this article, Abigail Rowe examines the severity of the UK's drug laws.

1st December 2014
Harmful evidence – wrongful conviction or suspicion on the basis of flawed eyewitness testimony

Helen Kaye, Deborah H. Drake & Graham Pike examine mistaken identifications and wrongful convictions in today's post.

27th October 2014