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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hillyard, Paddy, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social problems.

Criminology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Ann Arbor, Michigan : Pluto Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

""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 ""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78371-559-6

1-84964-149-8

1-281-72521-8

9786611725211

1-4356-6107-9