edited by Paddy Hillyard, Christina Pantazis, Dave Gordon and Steve Tombs
Pluto Press, 2004 Paper: 978-0-7453-1903-2 | Cloth: 978-0-7453-1904-9 Library of Congress Classification HN18.3.B49 2004 Dewey Decimal Classification 361.1
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 Introduction 1
2 Beyond criminology? 10
Paddy Hillyard and Steve Tombs
3 Towards a political economy of harm: states, corporations
and the production of inequality 30
Steve Tombs and Paddy Hillyard
4 Violence in democratic societies: towards an analytic
framework 55
Jamil Salmi
5 A theory of moral indifference: understanding the production
of harm by capitalist society 67
Simon Pemberton
6 State harms 84
Tony Ward
7 Re-orientating miscarriages of justice 101
Michael Naughton
8 The victimised state and the mystification of social harm 113
Joe Sim
9 The war on migration 133
Frances Webber
10 Workplace injury and death: social harm and the illusions
of law 156
Steve Tombs
11 Prime suspect: murder in Britain 178
Danny Dorling
12 Gendering harm through a life course perspective 192
Christina Pantazis
13 Heterosexuality as harm: fitting in 217
Lois Bibbings
14 Children and the concept of harm 236
Roy Parker
15 Poverty, death and disease 251
Dave Gordon
16 Conclusion 267
Notes 276
Bibliograplhy 291
Notes on Contributors 321
Index 322