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Why We Harm (Hardcover)
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Why We Harm (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Issues in Crime and Society
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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 timely book
presents a general theory of harm, revealing the commonalities
between actions that impose suffering and cause destruction. Harm
is built on stories in which the targets of harm are reduced to
one-dimensional characters-sometimes a dangerous foe, sometimes
much more benign, but still a projection of our own concerns and
interests. In our stories of harm, we are licensed to do the
harmful deed and, at the same time, are powerless to act
differently. Chapter by chapter, Presser examines statements made
by perpetrators of a wide variety of harmful actions. Appearing
vastly different from one another at first glance, Presser
identifies the logics they share that motivate, legitimize, and
sustain them. From that point, she maps out strategies for reducing
harm.
General
Imprint: |
Rutgers University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Critical Issues in Crime and Society |
Release date: |
October 2013 |
First published: |
November 2013 |
Authors: |
Lois Presser
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Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 14mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
184 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8135-6259-9 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Sociology, social studies >
Crime & criminology >
General
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LSN: |
0-8135-6259-7 |
Barcode: |
9780813562599 |
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