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(Fwd) CONFERENCE: ZEMIOLOGY: BEYOND CRIMINOLOGY?

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From:          "C Pantazis, School Policy Studies" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject:       CONFERENCE: ZEMIOLOGY: BEYOND CRIMINOLOGY?
Date:          Mon, 18 Jan 1999 14:40:44 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
Priority:      NORMAL

Dear David

Can you please circulate details of the Zemiology conference.

Thanks Christina


ZEMIOLOGY: BEYOND CRIMINOLOGY? 
Conference at Dartington, Totnes, Devon 12th and 13th February 1999.

During a person's life-cycle they are going to experience a range of physical and 
social harms in different contexts: in the home, on the street, at work and at play.  
The patterns of harm and the social background of those affected may vary according 
to the level of development of their country.  The source of harm will include poverty,
malnutrition, war, state violence, pollution, traffic accidents, 
disease, crime, work hazards, medical negligence, natural and avoidable 
disasters.  Many of these harms will be ignored whilst others will be 
responded to by a number of different agencies.  At a national level, 
for example, in Britain the response may come from the police, the 
health and safety executive, social services and increasingly private 
organisations.  At the international level, human rights organisations 
play an important role in responding to social harm.

The aim of this conference is to explore the feasibility and policy potential 
of moving beyond the analysis of crime to the study of harm, hence zemiology, 
which comes from the Greek word zemia meaning harm.  The main objective will be 
to define what we mean by harm; the contexts in which harm is most likely to occur; 
the patterns and extent of harm; and the characteristics of those most likely to 
experience harm.  

A second objective will be to understand why criminology has been so impervious 
to the substantial critiques which have been made over many years.  To begin with, 
there is no ontological reality to crime and the vast majority of events which are
dealt with by the criminal justice system would not score particularly 
highly on a scale of personal hardship.  Moreover, events which do 
cause serious harm and appear to be within the embrace of the criminal 
justice system are either ignored or dealt with in other arenas.   
Furthermore, it accepts uncritically key notions of criminal law such 
as intent and individual responsibility which play a fundamental role 
in classifying certain social harms as criminal.

A third objective is to explore whether a new approach would assist in developing a 
broader and more effective range of policy responses to the harm which people experience 
during their life cycle. When a harmful event is defined as a crime a process of 
criminalisation is set in motion, foreclosing social policy and political responses.  
The criminalisation process - the defining, the collating, the classifying, the 
broadcasting, the fortifying and the disposing - is expanding and penetrating deeper 
into the social structures of modern societies. Crime control has become an industry, 
yet it remains extremely ineffective in providing protection from harm.

The Crime and Disorder Act 1998 in Britain may exacerbate the emphasis on harms defined 
through criminalisation. It makes provision for every local authority to produce a "Crime 
Audit".  The issue, however, is not just crime but public protection.  What is the 
potential to broaden the remit to produce a social harm or a public safety audit which 
might include data on pollution, deaths and injuries at work, epidemiology and iatrogenesis? 
Some local authorities are already moving in this direction. The conference will provide 
essential information for anyone involved in the Crime Audit.  

The fourth objective of the conference will be to discuss the viability and potential of 
an approach organised around the concept of social harm. Would such an approach be subject 
to insoluble definitional problems?  Would it challenge the narrow paradigm of criminology? 
Would it lead to a change in emphasis on events which are considered 
harmful?  Would it lead to a decline in the criminalisation?  Would it 
change the range of responses to social harm?

All participants will be invited to send in advance comments, ideas, reactions prior 
to the Conference. These will then be available in the Conference packs. Speakers will 
be limited to 20 minute presentations providing ample time for discussion.

Dartington has a long tradition for facilitating radical and innovative ideas in both 
the social sciences and the arts.  It was built by Richard the Lionheart's brother-in-law 
in the fourteenth century.

List of Speakers

Violence and democratic societies: a framework for a systematic analysis of human rights violations
Jamil Salmi is a Development Economist working for the World Bank.  He is author of Violence and Democratic Society (1993).

Discourses of deceit and contexts of harm: from Hillsborough to Dumblane
Phil Scraton is Director of the Centre for Studies in Crime and Social Justice at Edgehill University College.

Mapping the Spaces of Fear
Pete Shirlow is Lecture in Geosciences  at Queens University Belfast.

The environment and social harm
Tom Bigg works for the United Nations Environment and Development UK Committee.

Assessing the impact of 'low intensity conflict' in Northern Ireland
Marie Smyth is Director of the Cost of the Troubles Study, Belfast.

The politics of crime and harm: the case of occupational health and safety
Steve Tombs is Professor of Sociology, at Liverpool John Moore University.

Harm in institutions
Mike Little is Deputy Director and Senior Research Fellow at the Dartington Social Research Unit.

What kills you and makes you sick
Nicky Pearson is a Consultant in Public Health Medicine with Somerset Health Authority.

Contested harms 
Tony Ward is Senior Lecturer Law at De Montfort University, Leicester.

The construction of 'intent' in courts and crime/social harm relationships
Andrew Sanders is Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology at the  University of Bristol.

New Labour and Social Harm
Joe Sim is Professor of Criminal Justice at Liverpool John Moore University.

Crime Auditing in practice
George Mair is E. Rex Makin Professor of Criminal Justice at Liverpool John Moore University.

Criminologies of sameness and difference: implications for punishment and control
Barbara Hudson is Professor of Criminology University of Northumbria at Newcastle.

Disasters, public safety and corporate criminal responsibility 
Louise Christian is a solicitor with Christian Fisher and Chair of the Civil Liberty Trust.

Public protection and private law in children's welfare
Marianne Hester is Professor Elect of Sociology and Social Policy at Sunderland University.

Paddy Hillyard is Director of the Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Social Justice, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol.

David Gordon is Director of the Townsend Centre of International Poverty Studies, University of Bristol.

Christina Pantazis is a Research Associate in the Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Social Justice, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol.


Further information can be obtained from Clare Biddlecombe, 
Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Social Justice, SPS, 
University of Bristol,  8 Priory Road, Bristol BS8 1TZ  Tel: 0117 9546765  
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C Pantazis, School Policy Studies
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Centre for the study of social exclusion and social justice
School for Policy Studies
University of Bristol
8 Priory Road
Bristol
BS8 ITZ

Telephone: (0117) 9546766
Fax: (0117) 9546764

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C Pantazis, School Policy Studies
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Centre for the study of social exclusion and social justice
School for Policy Studies
University of Bristol
8 Priory Road
Bristol
BS8 ITZ

Telephone: (0117) 9546766
Fax: (0117) 9546764

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C Pantazis, School Policy Studies
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Centre for the study of social exclusion and social justice
School for Policy Studies
University of Bristol
8 Priory Road
Bristol
BS8 ITZ

Telephone: (0117) 9546766
Fax: (0117) 9546764



David Wall,
Centre for Criminal Justice Studies,
University of Leeds.
Leeds. LS2 9JT
U.K.

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Cyberspace 1999 - see
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