Why We Harm

by Lois Presser

Book Overview

2014 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Criminologists are primarily concerned with the analysis of actions that violate existing laws. But a growing number have begun analyzing crimes as actions that inflict harm, regardless of the applicability of legal sanctions. Even as they question standard definitions of crime as law-breaking, scholars of crime have few theoretical frameworks with which to understand the etiology of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813562589
• ISBN13: 9780813562582
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary