Beyond Criminology is an innovative, groundbreaking critique of the narrow focus of conventional criminology. The authors argue that crime forms only a small and often insignificant amount of the harm experienced by people. They show that, while custom and tradition play an important role in the perpetuation of some types of harm, many forms of harm are rooted in the inequalities and social divisions systematically produced in -- and by -- contemporary states. Exploring a range of topics including violence, indifference, corporate and state harms, murder, children, asylum and immigration policies, sexuality and poverty, the contributions raise a number of theoretical and methodological issues associated with a social harm approach. Only once we have identified the origins, scale and consequences of social harms, they argue, can we begin to formulate possible responses -- and these are more likely to be located in public and social policy than in the criminal justice system. The book provides an original and challenging new perspective that goes beyond criminology -- one which will be of interest to students, teachers and policy makers.

Beyond Criminology: Taking Harm Seriously

Politics & Social Sciences

Daniel Dorling

Dave Gordon

Paddy Hillyard

Christina Pantazis

Steve Tombs

Social Sciences

Pluto Press

<p>Synopsis of Into Light and Shadow: A Journey Steve Forrest had always put himself first; he had built himself an enviable life, but it wasn't enough. There was one more prize to claim. Mount Everest is the greatest challenge in high altitude mountaineering, the goal of a lifetime's preparation. To summit is to conquer. Others see the mountain differently. It is sacred to Sherpas. They call it Chomolungma, Goddess Earth Mother of the World. It would prove to be the start of a journey, not the end of one; a spiritual journey unique to Steve, one that would utterly reshape his life. The mountain would take everything he had ever worked for but his battered ego. It would leave him alone, empty and exposed, a helpless invalid. Enter Father Jack, a man whose appearance is as extraordinary as his story, for he is both a Catholic priest and a Zen monk. Here begins Steve's real journey, a journey of spiritual ecumenism, bringing east and west together. This novel reincarnates, if you will, Gautama Buddha (although Jack would say otherwise), leading Steve down the path the Buddha took himself thousands of years earlier on his quest for enlightenment. But the path will deviate to Steve's Christian past and the spirituality of his forebears, as it must. Following close is a demon that in Buddhism has a name. As it once challenged the Buddha, it will now challenge Steve.</p>

Into Light and Shadow: A Journey

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Steve Forest is admitted to the hospital after a bad accident and subsequent near-death experience near the summit of Mt. Everest. Within three hours of arriving: * A doctor informs him he'll be a paraplegic the rest of his life. He's been a high-altitude mountaineer; * His wife serves him with divorce papers in a screaming fight in his hospital room. With the encouragement of the Light, he'd returned to his life from his near-death experience to be a better husband and father; * The widow of his best friend, Dan, confronts him with Dan's death on the mountain. He doesn't know what to tell her; * He continues to be deeply confused by immense conflict between his 'old self' and an identification with a 'new self' emerging from his recent experience. Steve doesn't know what to do. Then Jack appears ... and the adventure, and the dialogue begins...

Hangin' with Jack:: A Journey

Buddhism

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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