Invisible Crimes and Social Harms [electronic resource] /
Davies, P.editor.
Francis, P.editor.
Wyatt, T.editor.
This unique collection explores the continuing invisibility of much crime and victimization, and the lack of adequate responses to them. Shaping the lens through which criminology and victimology is approached in the twenty-first century, the volume examines major issues including (in)justice, risks, rights, regulation and enforcement.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Taking Invisible Crimes and SocialHarms Seriously; 2 Gender First: The Secret toRevealing Sexual Crimes andVictimisations; 3 Politics, Power and the Media:The Visibility of Environmentaland Eco-Terrorism; 4 The Visual Acuity of ClimateChange; 5 'Honour' Crimes; 6 Elder Abuse; 7 Selling Sex Invisibly: Solicitationas an Invisible Crime; 8 Air Pollution and Invisible Violence; 9 Invisible Pillaging: The HiddenHarm of Corporate Biopiracy; 10 War and Normative Visibility:Interactions in the Nomos
11 Health and Safety 'Crimes' inBritain: The Great Disappearing Act12 Regulating Fraud Revisited; 13 Invisible Crime, Social Harmand the Radical CriminologicalTradition; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
This unique collection explores the continuing invisibility of much crime and victimization, and the lack of adequate responses to them. Shaping the lens through which criminology and victimology is approached in the twenty-first century, the volume examines major issues including (in)justice, risks, rights, regulation and enforcement.
Criminology.
Environmental sociology.
Crime—Sociological aspects.
Criminal law.
Sociology.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.
Environmental Sociology.
Crime and Society.
Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law.
Sociology, general.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.