Questioning crime: social harms and global issues
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Contents

  • Introduction
  • Learning outcomes
  • 1 Introducing criminology, zemiology and social harm
    • 1.1 Introducing ‘crime’ and ‘harm’
    • 1.2 Power and inequality in the study of social harm
  • 2 What sort of a disaster was Hurricane Katrina?
    • 2.1 Structural inequality and ways of seeing ‘natural disasters’
    • 2.2 Johan Galtung and structural violence
    • 2.3 Criminology and Hurricane Katrina: understanding ‘natural disasters’ through a legalistic approach?
    • 2.4 Hurricane Katrina and the social harm approach
    • 2.4 ‘Natural disasters’ and social harm
  • 3 Corporations, prisons and global perspectives on crime and harm
    • 3.1 The prison industrial complex
    • 3.2 Global governing of prisons in Britain?
    • 3.3 The media, think tanks and the prison industrial complex
    • 3.4 Prisons and social harm
    • 3.5 Corporations, prisons and global perspectives on crime and harm
  • 4 Social harm and the ‘War on Terror’
    • 4.1 The ‘War on Terror’
    • 4.2 What is terrorism?
    • 4.3 Two discourses of terrorism
    • 4.4 Counting the costs of the ‘War on Terror’: a social harm analysis
    • 4.5 Security: do the ends justify the means?
    • 4.6 ‘Reconfiguring security and liberty’
    • 4.7 The ‘War on Terror’ and social harm
  • 5 Sources of support
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Acknowledgements

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