Why We Harm

Name: Why We Harm
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ISBN: 9780813562582

ISBN-10: 0813562589

ISBN-13: 9780813562582

Edition: 2013

Authors: Lois Presser

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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 theoretical framework with which to consider harmful actions and their causes. In doing so, this…

Book details

List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 11/13/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 180
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English



Preface and Acknowledgments



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


Notes


References


Index