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Why we harm /

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, scho...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Presser, Lois
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2013]
Colección:Critical issues in crime and society.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.