PHOTO COMPETITION ON HARM, INJUSTICE AND CRIME LAUNCHING SOON!!!

Violent events caused by businesses and the state; hidden violence against
women, children and the elderly; the way in which poverty hurts 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.

In September 2008 a national photography competition will be launched by the
Centre for Crime and Justice Studies at King’s College London as part of
our ‘What is crime?’ project. The competition will invite images which confront
and challenge the different contexts in which the powerful inflict violence and
harm upon the powerless and challenge popular ideas about what crime is, who
commits it and who gets harmed....more