Why We Harm


Lois Presser.
Bok Engelsk 2013 Lois. Presser,· Electronic books.
Utgitt
New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press , cop. 2013
Omfang
1 online resource (180 p.)
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - Making misery -- We are written: a narrative framework of harm -- Genocide, harm of harms -- Institutionalized harm through meat-eating -- Intimate partner violence: a familiar stranger -- Penal harm: stigma, threat, and retribution -- Synthesis -- Unmaking misery.. - Criminologists are primarily concerned with the analysis of actions that violate existing laws. But a growing number have begun analyzing crimes as actions that inflict harm, regardless of the applicability of legal sanctions. Even as they question standard definitions of crime as law-breaking, scholars of crime have few theoretical frameworks with which to understand the etiology of harmful action. In Why We Harm, Lois Presser scrutinizes accounts of acts as diverse as genocide, environmental degradation, war, torture, terrorism, homicide, rape, and meat-eating in order to develop an original
Emner
Crime - Sociological aspects
Criminology
Violence
Violent crimes - Psychological aspects
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ISBN
9780813562582. - 9780813562599

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