Beyond Criminology: Taking Harm Seriously

Moving beyond criminology's focus on harms defined by whether or not they constitute a crime, British law scholars and social scientists look at all the different types of harms that people experience during their lifetime. They argue that bracketing crime away from other harms and focusing only on it provides a partial and biased view of the nature and extent of harms, and casts into suspicion any attempt to explain the origin of criminal harms. Distributed in the US by University of Michigan Press. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR