Criminal Obsessions. Why harm matters more than crime

Paddy Hillyard, Christina Pantazis, Steve Tombs, Dave Gordon and Danny Dorling (October 2005) View executive summary Download document (Adobe PDF, 1.3MB) Criminal Obsessions is no longer available in hard copy format 'Criminal Obsessions' is an innovative, groundbreaking critique of conventional criminological approaches to social issues. The contributors show how social harm relates to social and economic inequalities that are at the heart of the liberal state. Only once we have identified the causes of social harm, they argue, can we begin to formulate possible responses, whether criminological or political.

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