From Social Harm to Zemiology: A Critical Introduction

by Steve Tombs and Victoria Canning

Book Overview

This book outlines key developments in understanding social harm by setting out its historical foundations and the discussions which have proliferated since. It examines various attempts to conceptualise social harm and highlights key sites of contestation in its relationship to criminology to argue that these act as the basis for an activist zemiology, one directed towards social change for social justice. The past two decades have seen a proliferation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138366099
• ISBN13: 9781138366091
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.4"