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Why We Harm

Paperback • 2013 • English • 1. edition

Why We Harm

By Lois Presser

1 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

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 ...Show more

Book details

ISBN

9780813562582

Publisher

Rutgers University Press

Published year

2013

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Why We Harm

Format

Paperback

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