From Social Harm to Zemiology
From Social Harm to Zemiology This book outlines key developments in understanding social harm by setting out its historical foundations and the discussions which have proliferated since. The past…
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From Social Harm to Zemiology
This book outlines key developments in understanding social harm by setting out its historical foundations and the discussions which have proliferated since. The past two decades have seen a proliferation of debate related to social harm in and around criminology. 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.
From climate catastrophe and a focus on environmental harms, unprecedented deaths generating focus on border harms and the coronavirus pandemic revealing the horror of mass and arguably avoidable deaths across the globe, critical studies in social harm appear ever more pressing.Drawing on a range of international case studies of cultural, emotional, physical and