Dear Colleague,

What is crime? Photography Competition
Help us to challenge common sense thinking
www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/whatiscrime.html

The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies is proud to launch a new photography competition 'What is crime?' which seeks to explore how we view harm, crime and injustice. We are writing to ask you to consider incorporating this initiative into your classes or to encourage your students to take part. You may even be interested in participating yourself!

Launched today, the ‘What is crime?’ photography competition seeks to challenge common sense thinking by seeking innovative submissions of images of 'crime' and the 'criminal'. Violent events caused by businesses and the state; hidden violence against women, children and the elderly; the way in which poverty injures, hurts and kills; the impact of environmental pollution – all of these rarely attract the same level of political and public concern as ‘conventional’ crime. So, rather than the usual law and order images of police, prison and judges, the competition invites entries which stimulate thinking about harm, injustice and crime – around the themes of financial harm and inequality; environmental harm and; different forms of violence.

Open to members of the public, students and campaigners, amateur and professional photographers alike, the competition represents an innovative way of intervening in public debates about justice and will seek creative, moving or funny images. This is an opportunity for you and/or your students to contribute visually to this exploration of harm, crime and injustice. If you would like to promote the competition, like paper or electronic versions of our flyers, or have any queries, please email me at this address.

Entry is via our website only and closes on March 1st 2009. More information about the competition can be viewed here – http://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/whatiscrimephoto.html or to download a leaflet, click here http://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/opus837/WICleafletSept08.pdf .

As part of our wider 'What is crime?' initiative we are also publishing a series of briefing papers and holding a number of events; you may have come across our publication earlier this year by Professor Steve Tombs and Dr Dave Whyte on injuries at work was the first briefing (under the violence strand), and we're also planning a lecture on structural violence and human insecurity to be given by Dr David Roberts early next year. We're in the process of commissioning a number of other papers on environmental harm and financial harm. More details of the project are here http://www.whatiscrime.org.uk.

Please feel free to pass this to any friends or colleagues you feel might be interested.

Best regards, Anna

Anna Gilmour
'What is crime?' Competition Coordinator
Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
King's College, London
Strand
London WC2R 2LS

Tel: 020 7848 1677
anna.gilmour@kcl.ac.uk
www.crimeandjustice.org.uk

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