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 also 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/opus833/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 
Competition Coordinator 
Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
King's College, London
Strand
London WC2R 2LS
 
Tel: 020 7848 1677
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www.crimeandjustice.org.uk
 
The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies at King’s College London is an 
independent charity that informs and educates about all aspects of crime and 
criminal justice. We provide information, produce research and carry out policy 
analysis to encourage and facilitate an understanding of the complex nature of 
issues concerning crime. We are a membership organisation working with 
practitioners, policy makers, academics and students, the media and voluntary 
sector, offering a programme of events, publications and online resources.
 
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