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Beyond Criminology : Taking Harm Seriously.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Pluto Press, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (340 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781783715596
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Beyond CriminologyDDC classification:
  • 361.1
LOC classification:
  • HN18.3 .B496 2004
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Beyond criminology? -- 3 Towards a political economy of harm: states, corporations and the production of inequality -- 4 Violence in democratic societies: towards an analytic framework -- 5 A theory of moral indifference: understanding the production of harm by capitalist society -- 6 State harms -- 7 Re-orientating miscarriages of justice -- 8 The victimised state and the mystification of social harm -- 9 The war on migration -- 10 Workplace injury and death: social harm and the illusions of law -- 11 Prime suspect: murder in Britain -- 12 Gendering harm through a life course perspective -- 13 Heterosexuality as harm: fitting in -- 14 Children and the concept of harm -- 15 Poverty, death and disease -- 16 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
Summary: Reassesses conventional notions of crime by examining potential categories of social harm inflicted by globalisation.
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Intro -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Beyond criminology? -- 3 Towards a political economy of harm: states, corporations and the production of inequality -- 4 Violence in democratic societies: towards an analytic framework -- 5 A theory of moral indifference: understanding the production of harm by capitalist society -- 6 State harms -- 7 Re-orientating miscarriages of justice -- 8 The victimised state and the mystification of social harm -- 9 The war on migration -- 10 Workplace injury and death: social harm and the illusions of law -- 11 Prime suspect: murder in Britain -- 12 Gendering harm through a life course perspective -- 13 Heterosexuality as harm: fitting in -- 14 Children and the concept of harm -- 15 Poverty, death and disease -- 16 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

Reassesses conventional notions of crime by examining potential categories of social harm inflicted by globalisation.

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