What Is the Most Dangerous Thing a Woman Can Do? Weaponised Attachment and the Invisible Abuser
- π€ Speaker: Mags Lesiak, Institute of Criminology
- π Date & Time: Monday 16 February 2026, 12:30 - 13:00
- π Venue: SS03 Seminar Room, Willam Gates building (Department of Computer Science and Technology)
Abstract
Public conversations about womenβs safety tend to focus on streets, strangers, and personal precautions. This talk begins with a simple question that unsettles those assumptions and leads somewhere unexpected. Drawing on ongoing criminological research, it explores how danger is often misrecognised, how trust and intimacy can become sites of risk, and why some forms of harm remain difficult to see, even when they are widespread.
Series This talk is part of the Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series series.
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Monday 16 February 2026, 12:30-13:00