RT Article
T1 Crime or social harm?: a dialectical perspective
JF Crime, law and social change
VO 54
IS 1
SP 1
OP 19
A1 Lasslett, Kristian
LA English
YR 2010
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1855140527
AB This paper proposes to examine some of the core philosophical issues to have arisen out of the recent calls to move "beyond criminology". It will be claimed that the dismissal of crime as a "fictive event" is premature, as crime does indeed have an "ontological reality". Nevertheless, it will be asserted that the relation between harm and crime is contingent rather than necessary. Accordingly, this paper will argue that there is merit to the claim that we should unify research on social harm through the creation of a new field, a step which would have the added benefit of constructing an alternative venue for crimes of the powerful scholars who wish to explore the destructive practices of states and corporations unconstrained. This paper, therefore, will also offer a dialectical definition of social harm based upon classical Marxist strains of ontological thought.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 18-19
K1 Criminal Justice System
K1 Historical Condition
K1 Ontological Reality
K1 Scientific Practice
K1 Social Harm
DO 10.1007/s10611-010-9241-x