Beyond criminology taking harm seriously pdf

The Substantive Concerns of Critical Criminology VI

Conclusion Critical criminology is an umbrella term for a variety of criminological theories and perspectives that challenge core assumptions of mainstream (or conventional) criminology in some substantial way and provide alternative approaches to understanding crime and its control

Speaking broadly, the special relationship of criminology to the harm perspective provides an opportunity to delineate the latter by tracing it along the outer boundary of the former, and thus to avoid one pitfall that threatens this project, namely ending up with no more than a grab bag of harms of all sorts and sizes