The Palgrave Handbook of Social Harm

This handbook explores the concept of 'harm' in criminological scholarship and lays the foundation for a future zemiological agenda. 'Social harm' as a theoretical construct has become established as an alternative, broader lens through which to understand the causation and alleviation of widespread harm in society, thus moving beyond criminology and state definitions of crime and extending the range of criminological research. Applying zemiological concepts, this book comprehensively explores topics including violence, moral indifference, workplace injury, corporate and state harms, animal rights, migration, gender, poverty, security and victimisation. This definitive work covers theory, research, scholarship and future visions across four sections, and includes contributions from areas such as criminology, sociology, socio-legal and cultural studies, social policy and international relations. It offers readers up-to-date, original theoretical perspectives and an analysis of a broad range of issues from a 'social harm' perspective.

Auteur
Pamela Davies is Professor of Criminology in the Department of Social Sciences at Northumbria University, UK. Pam's research focuses on gender, crime and victimization.
Paul S. Leighton is Professor in the Department of Sociology, Criminology and Anthropology at Eastern Michigan University, USA. He is the co-author, with Jeffrey Reiman, of The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison. He is also the co-author, with Gregg Barak and Allison Cotton, of Class, Race, Gender and Crime.
Tanya Wyatt is Professor of Criminology in the Department of Social Sciences at Northumbria University, UK. She is a green criminologist specialising in research on wildlife trafficking, non-human animal welfare, and corruption that facilitates environmental degradation.

Contenu
Author Biographies
Table of Figures, Pictures and Tables
Chapter 1 The case for studying social harmPaul Leighton and Tanya Wyatt
PART 1 Histories and Theoretical Perspectives
Chapter 2 Beyond Criminology?Paddy Hillyard and Steve Tomb
Chapter 3 Ideology and HarmSimon Winlow, Emma Kelly and Tammy Ayers
Chapter 4 The Assumption of HarmThomas Raymen
Chapter 5 Global Harms and the Natural EnvironmentRob White
PART 2 Methods for studying harmChapter 6 On Researching Harm: An Ultra-Realist PerspectiveJustin Kotze
Chapter 7 Visual and Sensory Methodologies to Explore Environmental Harm and VictimisationLorenzo Natali
Chapter 8 Documenting Harm to the Voiceless: Researching animal abuseJenny Maher
PART 3 Social harms based scholarship
Chapter 9 The Harms of Industrial Food ProductionPaul Leighton
Chapter 10 Work-based HarmAnthony Lloyd
Chapter 11 The Deviant Leisure Perspective: A Theoretical IntroductionThomas Raymen and Oliver Smith
Chapter 12 Beyond Meat? Taking Violence Against Non-Human Animals Seriously as a Form of Social HarmNathan Stephens Griffin and Naomi Griffin
Part 4 Social Harm: visions and futuresChapter 13 Crime, Harm and Justice: The Utopia of Harm and Realising Justice in a 'Good Society'Lynne Copson
Chapter 14 Rebuilding the Harm Principle: Using an Evolutionary Perspective to Provide a New Foundation for JusticeEd Gibney and Tanya Wyatt
Chapter 15 An Exploration of Security Privatisation Dynamics through the Lens of Social Harm Helena Carrapico
Chapter 16 Looking at crime and deviancy in cyberspace through the social harm lensAnita Lavorgna
Chapter 17 Harm and MigrationChris Moreh
Chapter 18 Why Social Harm Matters: Five reasons from a feminist influenced victim perspectivePam Davies
Index