From ‘crime’ to social harm? |
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Authors: | Paddy Hillyard Steve Tombs |
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Institution: | 1. School of Sociology, Social Policy & Social Work, Queens University, 6 College Park, University Road, Belfast, BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, UK
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Abstract: | Debates around the relationships between criminology and social harm are long-standing. This article sets out some of the key features of current debates between, on the one hand, those who would retain a commitment to ‘crime’ and criminology and those, on the other hand who would abandon criminology for a social harm perspective. To this end, the article begins by highlighting several criticisms of criminology, criticisms raised in particular by a diverse group of critical criminologists over the past 30 to 40 years. While these are hardly new, the rehearsal of these is an important starting point for a discussion of the potential of the development of an alternative discipline. The paper then proposes a number of reasons why a disciplinary approach organised around a notion of social harm may prove to be more productive than has criminology hitherto: that is, may have the potential for greater theoretical coherence and imagination, and for more political progress. |
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