Harmful Societies
Subtitle: Understanding Social Harm
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781847427946
Subjects: Criminology; Justice
Description: "While the notion of social harm has long interested critical criminologists it is now being explored as an alternative field of study, which provides more accurate analyses of the vicissitudes of life. However, important aspects of this notion remain undeveloped, in particular the definition of social harm, the question of responsibility and the methodologies for studying harm. This book, the first to theorise and define the social harm concept beyond criminology, seeks to address these omissions and questions why some capitalist societies appear to be more harmful than others." -- Back cover.