Blamestorming, Blamemongers and Scapegoats

Allocating Blame in the Criminal Justice Process

Gavin Dingwall, Tim Hillier (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

216 Seiten

2016
Policy Press (Verlag)
9781447304999 (ISBN)

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This is the first detailed criminological account of the role of blame in which the authors present a novel study of the legal process of blame attribution, set in the context of criminalisation as a social and political process. It will also be of wider interest to anyone wishing to discover the role of blame in modern society.

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence

We live in a society that is increasingly preoccupied with allocating blame: when something goes wrong someone must be to blame. Bringing together philosophical, psychological, and sociological accounts of blame, this is the first detailed criminological account of the role of blame in which the authors present a novel study of the legal process of blame attribution, set in the context of criminalisation as a social and political process. This timely and topical book will be essential reading for anyone working or researching in the criminal justice field. It will also be of wider interest to anyone wishing to discover the role of blame in modern society.

Gavin Dingwall is Professor of Criminal Justice Policy at De Montfort University. Tim Hillier is Head of the School of Law at De Montfort University.

Introduction and the centrality of blame;

Blame in the criminal justice process;

Blame and the blameless;

Blameless crime;

Blame amplification;

Putting oneself in harm’s way;

Blame, punitiveness and criminalisation;

Blamestorming and blamemongers.

Erscheinungsdatum	24.07.2016
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-13	9781447304999 / 9781447304999
Zustand	Neuware