Written by Professor Christina Pantazis
The University of Bristol has been home to critical and activist scholarship on social harms and crime from the mid-1970s. Our research has often focused on the invisible or hidden harms and injustices that traditional disciplines – including criminology – have ignored. Some of us use the term zemiology – borrowed from the Greek term ‘zemia’ (harm) – to deliberately mark out this new disciplinary territory. (more…)