Series: Studies in Social Harm

Why are some harms defined as crimes while others are not? This pioneering collection disrupts the boundaries of criminology, offering a bold, innovative exploration of crime, state power, and social harm across historical and global contexts. Bridging zemiology, governmentality studies, and decolonial theory, Crime, Harm and the State offers a fresh perspective on how the colonial roots and ongoing dynamics...

Technologies contribute to harms in a variety of ways, but can we ever say they are harmful in-and-of-themselves? How Technologies Harm offers a new way to understand how technologies, while not intrinsically harmful, are laden with values and dispositions that can contribute to negative outcomes. Building on insights from postphenomenology, realist social theory and the philosophy of action, it provides...

Social Harm and Neoliberalism links criminological, political, moral, and philosophical issues to offer a deeper understanding of the problem of social harm within the neoliberal environment. Illustrated through case studies, John Gregson shows that social harms are a problem created not only by politics or economics, states or corporations, but also by the individualism that neoliberal societies encourage. He argues...

This vital book exposes the devastating ways families are treated after their loved ones have been killed by a relatively powerful perpetrator; revealing how families are harmed, silenced by the criminal justice process, and rendered invisible in both criminology and the mainstream media. Drawing on landmark cases such as the Grenfell fire, it explores the failures of de-regulation and how...