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.

Volkswagen: a routine case of corporate-state harm production

This article is by Steve Tombs, who explores the recent falsified emissions testing by Volkswagen.

15th October 2015
Pushing the boundaries of prison ethnography

Deborah Drake, Rod Earle and Jennifer Sloan explore how prison ethnography can be expanded in this post.

13th October 2015
How to improve identification evidence: Practitioner hits and academic false alarms.

In this blog, Graham Pike and Virginia Harrison discuss how to improve identification evidence.

28th September 2015
The Corporate Criminal

Steve Tombs and David Whyte discuss their new book: The Corporate Criminal: Why corporations must be abolished.

10th September 2015
Austerity as Bureaucratized and Organized Violence

In this article, Vickie Cooper examines the intricacies and insidiousness of UK austerity policies.

24th August 2015
Tenants in danger: the rise of eviction watches

Today, Vickie Cooper and Kirsteen Paton discuss the connections between eviction watches past and present, and the need for a collective housing response.

3rd August 2015
Rough sleepers in policy and practice: chaotic and off course, or misunderstood?

In this post, Dan McCulloch examines policy and practical responses to the increasing number of rough sleepers.

3rd August 2015
Is there something in the (cabin) air?

Today's article from Gini Harrison explores potentially toxic cabin air.

15th June 2015
Anti-austerity backlash is moving up a gear – even in ‘progressive’ Scotland

In this blog post, Gerry Mooney discusses Scottish anti-austerity backlash.

1st June 2015
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