Chapter 23 Useful websites

  • The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies seeks to “advance public understanding of crime, criminal justice and social harm”, standing with “those most vulnerable to social harm”.
  • The Radical Statistics Group focuses on the extent to which official statistics reflect governmental rather than social purposes. A particular concern is with the fragmentation of social problems into specialist fields, obscuring connectedness.
  • Danny Dorling is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oxford. His work – much of which is open access - concerns inequality and harm and most specifically issues of housing, health, employment, education, and poverty.
  • The Harm & Evidence Research Collaborative (HERC) is a research grouping at The Open University, characterised by an interdisciplinary approach that combines perspectives from critical criminology, social policy, history, psychology, sociology, and health and social care.
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