LEADER 03798nam 2200709 450 001 9910453716803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8135-6260-0 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813562605 035 $a(CKB)2550000001161113 035 $a(EBL)1562507 035 $a(OCoLC)864749917 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001041763 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11633019 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001041763 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11044391 035 $a(PQKB)11320072 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1562507 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse27715 035 $a(DE-B1597)529251 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813562605 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1562507 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10802948 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL544207 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001161113 100 $a20130222h20132013 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWhy we harm /$fLois Presser 210 1$aNew Brunswick, New Jersey :$cRutgers University Press,$d[2013] 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (180 p.) 225 0 $aCritical Issues in Crime and Society 225 0$aCritical issues in crime and society 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8135-6259-7 311 $a1-306-12956-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMaking misery -- We are written: a narrative framework of harm -- Genocide, harm of harms -- Institutionalized harm through meat-eating -- Intimate partner violence: a familiar stranger -- Penal harm: stigma, threat, and retribution -- Synthesis -- Unmaking misery. 330 $aCriminologists are primarily concerned with the analysis of actions that violate existing laws. But a growing number have begun analyzing crimes as actions that inflict harm, regardless of the applicability of legal sanctions. Even as they question standard definitions of crime as law-breaking, scholars of crime have few theoretical frameworks with which to understand the etiology of harmful action. In Why We Harm, Lois Presser scrutinizes accounts of acts as diverse as genocide, environmental degradation, war, torture, terrorism, homicide, rape, and meat-eating in order to develop an original theoretical framework with which to consider harmful actions and their causes. In doing so, this timely book presents a general theory of harm, revealing the commonalities between actions that impose suffering and cause destruction. Harm is built on stories in which the targets of harm are reduced to one-dimensional characters?sometimes a dangerous foe, sometimes much more benign, but still a projection of our own concerns and interests. In our stories of harm, we are licensed to do the harmful deed and, at the same time, are powerless to act differently. Chapter by chapter, Presser examines statements made by perpetrators of a wide variety of harmful actions. Appearing vastly different from one another at first glance, Presser identifies the logics they share that motivate, legitimize, and sustain them. From that point, she maps out strategies for reducing harm. 410 0$aCritical Issues in Crime and Society 606 $aCrime$xSociological aspects 606 $aCriminology 606 $aViolence 606 $aViolent crimes$xPsychological aspects 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCrime$xSociological aspects. 615 0$aCriminology. 615 0$aViolence. 615 0$aViolent crimes$xPsychological aspects. 676 $a303.6 700 $aPresser$b Lois$0988181 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453716803321 996 $aWhy we harm$92459607 997 $aUNINA