What is crime?
Overview
The What is crime? project aims to stimulate debate about what crime is, what it isn't and who gets to decide. Funded by The Wates Foundation from 2008-2009, this project features;
- A public photography competition and exhibition.
- Research and policy briefing papers.
- Parliamentary mini-inquiries.
- Lectures and events.
The project is focused on the following themes;
- Violence: Public and private
- Finance
- Environment
Photography competition
The What is crime? photography competition explored thinking on what we think of as harmful, unjust or criminal in the categories of violence, environment and finance.
Publications and activities
- Crime is in the air: air pollution and regulation in the UK, Professor Reece Walters of the Open University highlights the human costs of air pollution and failed attempts to adequately regulate and control such harm.
- A crisis of enforcement: the decriminalisation of death and injury at work, June 2008 by Professor Steve Tombs and Dr David Whyte (launched at a parliamentary event hosted by Katy Clark, MP on 17 June 2008.)
- Public health in a recession, Dr David Stuckler discusses what the public health effects of a current recession might be.
- The public health effect of economic crises and alternative policy responses in Europe: an empirical analysis by Stuckler, D., Basu, S., Suhrcke, M/, Coutts, A. and McKee, M., published in The Lancet (2009) Vol 374 No. 9686 pp315-323
For more information...
For more information about the photography competition, contact Anna Gilmour at . For queries relating to any other aspect of the What is crime? project such as policy briefing papers and events, contact Will McMahon.