Ideology and harm

Simon Winlow*, Emma Kelly, Tammy Ayres

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Abstract

In this chapter, we discuss ideology and suggest an adapted understanding of ideology can allow us to respond productively to what should be a fundamental question for criminologists and zemiologists working today: why – rather than joining with others to pursue our mutual betterment – do we routinely visit harm on one another and the natural environments upon which we depend? Why, when it is possible to live in relative harmony, do we continue to pursue selfish and short-sighted ends? To understand the constraints that have been placed upon our imagination and activity, we must transcend empiricism and idealism and draw upon intellectual traditions currently marginalised in academic criminology.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Palgrave Handbook of Social Harm
EditorsPamela Davies, Paul Leighton, Wyatt Tanya
Place of PublicationCham, Switzerland
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Pages37-58
Number of pages22
Edition1st
ISBN (Electronic)9783030724085
ISBN (Print)9783030724078, 9783030724108
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 10 Sept 2021

Publication series

NamePalgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
ISSN (Print)2947-9355
ISSN (Electronic)2947-9363

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