Beyond criminology : taking harm seriously / edited by Paddy Hillyard ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hillyard, Paddy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social problems.

Criminology.

Physical Description:

x, 332 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press ; Black Point, N.S. : Fernwood Pub, 2004.

Summary:

"Beyond Criminology" is an innovative, groundbreaking critique of conventional criminological approaches to social issues. The contributors make a broad analysis of social harm examining the theoretical issues, and then looking at harmful organisations, policies and experiences.Using this approach, the contributors show how social harm relates to social and economic inequalities that are the heart of the liberal state. Only once we have identified the causes of social harm, they argue, can we begin to formulate possible responses, whether criminological or political. Exploring a range of topics including violence, indifference, corporate and state harms, miscarriages of justice, gender and harm, children, asylum and immigration policies, and sexuality, the contributors offer an innovative new approach that goes beyond criminology that should be of interest to students, teachers and policy-makers.

Contents:

1 Introduction

2 Beyond criminology? / Paddy Hillyard Hillyard, Paddy, Steve Tombs Tombs, Steve

3 Towards a political economy of harm: states, corporations and the production of inequality / Paddy Hillyard Hillyard, Paddy, Steve Tombs Tombs, Steve

4 Violence in democratic societies: towards an analytic framework / Jamil Salmi Salmi, Jamil

5 A theory of moral indifference: understanding the production of harm by capitalist society / Simon Pemberton Pemberton, Simon

6 State harms / Tony Ward Ward, Tony

7 Re-orientating miscarriages of justice / Michael Naughton Naughton, Michael

8 The victimised state and the mystif.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0745319041

0745319033

1552661482

OCLC:

55972834