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'This book deserves fulsome praise for challenging the academic
silence surrounding this area and for reminding us that it is
possible to conduct rigorous, scholarly and interventionist work
without becoming dependent or involved with the managerial
gatekeepers of the criminal justice system.' Journal of Law and
Society
"Beyond Criminology" is an innovative, groundbreaking critique of
the narrow focus of conventional criminology. The authors argue
that crime forms only a small and often insignificant amount of the
harm experienced by people. They show that, while custom and
tradition play an important role in the perpetuation of some types
of harm, many forms of harm are rooted in the inequalities and
social divisions systematically produced in -- and by --
contemporary states. Exploring a range of topics including
violence, indifference, corporate and state harms, murder,
children, asylum and immigration policies, sexuality and poverty,
the contributions raise a number of theoretical and methodological
issues associated with a social harm approach. Only once we have
identified the origins, scale and consequences of social harms,
they argue, can we begin to formulate possible responses -- and
these are more likely to be located in public and social policy
than in the criminal justice system. The book provides an original
and challenging new perspective that goes beyond criminology -- one
which will be of interest to students, teachers and policy makers.
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