School of Law University of Edinburgh Old College South Bridge Edinburgh EH8 9YL UK
Biographical Details
Lynne joined the School of Law in August 2011 as Teaching Fellow in Criminology.Her principal research interests lie in theories of crime, harm and justice; the relationship between conventional and critical criminology and the emerging perspective of zemiology (or a ‘social harm approach’); and utopianism. Her current research focuses on unearthing the concepts of harm and justice underpinning the conventional criminal justice system in contrast to those implicit within critical criminological and zemiological theories, particularly in terms of their respective policy implications for realising justice and ‘the good society’.
Lynne has a PhD from the University of Bristol, and an MSc in Social Science Research Methods (Sociology), funded through an ESRC ‘1+3’ competition award.She also has an MSc in Social and Cultural Theory and a BSc (Hons) in Sociology and Philosophy from the University of Bristol. During her doctoral studies, she held a Visting Research Fellowship at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and has previously taught on undergraduate courses in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol and in the Department of History, Politics and Philosophy, University of the West of England.
Lynne Copson 'Social Harm: Moving "Beyond Criminology"?' presented at York Deviancy Conference, University of York, 2011
Lynne Copson 'Deadly Inequalities and the Limitations of Justice' presented at British Sociological Association Annual Conference, Glasgow Caledonian University, 2010
Lynne Copson 'Dangerous Dreams vs. the Absence of Aspiration: Utopia, Process and the Necessity of Social Dreaming' presented at Utopia and Dystopian Literature Conference, New York University, 2009
Lynne Copson 'Utopian Relations and the Desirability of Harm: The Implications of Zemiology for an Alternative Sociality' presented at Practical Utopias and Utopian Practices (ESRC Funded Seminar Series), University of Bristol, 2008
Lynne Copson 'Data Protection and the Ethics of Innocence Projects' presented at Innocence Network UK (INUK) Second National Training Programme, University of Bristol, 2007
Lynne Copson 'Who is the Legitimate Victim?' presented at Postgraduate Conference on Law and Human Rights, University College Cork, 2007
Lynne Copson 'Legitimate Victims?; Crime, Harm and the Hierarchization of Victimhood' presented at Connections 6 Conference, University of Bristol, 2007
Lynne Copson 'The Ideology of Crime and the Utopia of Harm: A Foucauldian Defence of the Zemiological Perspective' presented at Connections 5 Conference, University of Bristol, 2006
