The online video library of Crime, Justice and Society seminars is up to date with a series of 8 seminars from 2022/23:

https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/research/crime-justice-and-society-seminars

View papers on current research from:

Teresa Degenhardt;
Lindsay Farmer;
Deborah Russo;
Amy Beddows;
Jakub Drápal;
Máximo Sozzo;
Cara Hunter and Robert Holland;
Francesca Soliman and Kajsa Dinesson.

#Law #Criminology #Zemiology #Research #LawAndSociety #Justice

Crime, Justice and Society Seminars | Edinburgh Law School

The Crime, Justice and Society seminars are co-hosted by the Criminal Law and Criminology subject areas of Edinburgh Law School and are open to all.

New paper from Edward Wright on a blind-spot and the benefits of addressing it:

Decolonizing Zemiology: Outlining and Remedying the Blindness to (Post)colonialism Within the Study of Social Harm.

Critical Criminology 31, 127–144 (2023).

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-022-09682-5

#zemiology #criminology #decoloniality #crimmigration #BorderCriminology

Decolonizing Zemiology: Outlining and Remedying the Blindness to (Post)colonialism Within the Study of Social Harm - Critical Criminology

This paper hosts the first meaningful dialogue between two important epistemic movements for criminology: zemiology and decolonisation. I identify that zemiology has a disciplinary blindness to colonialism and explain this using Gurminder K. Bhambra’s scholarship—and cognate scholarship—as a frame. Three cases—Pemberton’s Harmful Societies, Grenfell, and Border Zemiology—are selected for their critical importance within zemiology. They are used to argue that zemiology works within a standard narrative of modernity characterised by capitalist nation-states, which does not recognise the colonial foundations of both of these. Capitalist modernity is, however, a colonial formation. Recognising this allows for a better understanding for a wide range of harms. I then discuss future directions for decolonial zemiology, advocating not for expansion of repertoire, but canonical revision so that colonialism is afforded space as an explanatory frame and zemiology can better explain social harm on a global level.

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Get your seminar shoes on, @FraSoliman and @dinesson will be doing their Zemiology meets Criminal Law meets counterterrorism policy thing in person (Edinburgh) and online on Wednesday 5 April at 1600 BST/UTC+1.

Preventing harm: A Zemiology of counter-terrorism

Full details and sign up here: https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/events/cjs-seminar-francesca-soliman-and-kajsa-dinesson

#Zemiology #CriminalLaw #Prevent #Policy #Terrorism #Counterterrorism #Law #Research

CJS Seminar: Francesca Soliman and Kajsa Dinesson | Edinburgh Law School

📢New paper alert📢
Available now on open access: new paper on environmental border harms in Lampedusa. Read how decades of wilful mismanagement of migrants' boats by border authorities has made fishing hazardous and polluted the island's sea, land, and air.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10612-023-09692-x#citeas
#zemiology #environmentaljustice #greencriminology #border
Environmental Harms at the Border: The Case of Lampedusa - Critical Criminology

In this paper I examine authorities’ management of migrant boats on the island of Lampedusa, Italy, as an example of environmental border harm. A danger to trawlers, sunken wrecks are also hazardous to the environment, with pollutants such as oil and fuel seeping into the sea. Migrant boats that reach the island, whether independently or towed by rescuers, are left to accumulate in the harbour and eventually break up, scattering debris in bad weather. When boats are uplifted onto land, they are amassed in large dumps, leaking pollutants into the soil. Periodically, the resulting environmental crises trigger emergency tendering processes for the disposal of the boats, which allow for the environmental protections normally required in public bidding to be suspended for the sake of expediency. The disposal of migrant boats thus relies on a pattern of manufactured environmental emergencies, consistent with the intrinsically crisis-based management of the border itself.

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Time for an #introduction: I am a lecturer in #criminology at Edinburgh Napier University.

My main interest is #zemiology, the study of social harms, and my research focuses on migration and border harms.

I am also an amateur birder and I am interested in environmental harms, particularly raptor persecution.

I mostly toot about my work, plus the occasional cat/bird picture, and boost anything I find interesting.

Our latest internacional paper presents results from two studies with young people online during the Covid pandemic in Spain. It is theorised from an Ultra-Realist perspective using the social harm framework.

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/11/8/335

#Research #Criminology #SocialHarm #Zemiology #SocialMedia #TikTok #Instagram #Dating #Apps