SPEEDING AS A CRIME
Laurie Taylor talks to Criminologist Claire Corbett about her work on driver responses to speed cameras and how they are echoed in the views of the wider public.
Over all the psychology seems to be that speeding is such a little sin compared to say physical violence or theft that hey, it almost seems ridiculous to regard it as a crime at all. And yet speeding in the guise of reckless driving first hit the statute books over a century ago and today research suggests that speeding remains the root cause of one in three fatal road accidents.
So why has it proved so resistant to social stigma?
CEMETERY
Meanwhile the cemetery, lynchpin in the cultural construction of death in the West, may itself be running out of time.
Ken Worpole, an expert on urban public spaces, first noticed a lack of provision for cemeteries and remembrance gardens in British policy and planning reports a decade ago. Since then he has taken an extensive tour across Europe, around the UK and over to the United States in order to monitor the comparative health of what he calls ‘Last Landscapes’ the woodland grove, the mausoleum, the necropolis and the crematorium.
Ken Worpole and Kate Berridge, author of Vigor Mortis join Laurie Taylor to discuss the subject.
Additional information:
Dr Claire Corbett
Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice Research in the Law department at BrunelUniversity
Car Crime
Willan Publishing ISBN 1843920247
The Social Construction of Speeding As Not ‘Real’ Crime
Crime Prevention and Community Safety: An International Journal 2 (4) 2000
A Typology of Drivers’ Responses to Speed Cameras: Implications for Speed Limit Enforcement and Road Safety
Psychology, Crime and Law
Vol. 6, No. 4, 2000 - pp. 305-330
The Effects of Speed Cameras: How Drivers Respond
Claire Corbett and Frances Simon
DETR 1999
Ken Worpole
Specialist in contemporary urban and environmental issues
Last Landscapes: The Architecture of the Cemetery in the West
Reaktion Books ISBN 186189161X
The Cemetery in the City 1997
Demos ISBN 1873667337
Here Comes the Sun: Architecture and Private Space in Twentieth Century European Culture 2001
Reaktion Books ISBN 1861890737
Kate Berridge
Vigor Mortis
Profile Books ISBN 1861974116
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