Invisible Crimes and Social Harms

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Taking Invisible Crimes and Social Harms Seriously

   • Pamela Davies, Peter Francis, Tanya Wyatt

   Pages 1-25

3. Gender First: The Secret to Revealing Sexual Crimes and Victimisations

   • Pamela Davies

   Pages 26-43

4. Politics, Power and the Media: The Visibility of Environmental and Eco Terrorism

   • Hayley Watson, Tanya Wyatt

   Pages 44-60

5. The Visual Acuity of Climate Change

   • Avi Brisman

   Pages 61-80

6. ‘Honour’ Crimes

   • Alexandra Hall

   Pages 81-101

7. Elder Abuse

   • Matthew Hall

   Pages 102-122

8. Selling Sex Invisibly: Solicitation as an Invisible Crime

   • Mary Laing

   Pages 123-141

9. Air Pollution and Invisible Violence

   • Reece Walters

   Pages 142-160

10. Invisible Pillaging: The Hidden Harm of Corporate Biopiracy

    • Tanya Wyatt

    Pages 161-177

11. War and Normative Visibility: Interactions in the Nomos

    • Wayne Morrison

    Pages 178-198

12. Health and Safety ‘Crimes’ in Britain: The Great Disappearing Act

    • Steve Tombs

    Pages 199-220

13. Regulating Fraud Revisited

    • Michael Levi

    Pages 221-243

14. Invisible Crime, Social Harm and the Radical Criminological Tradition

    • Peter Francis, Pamela Davies, Tanya Wyatt

    Pages 244-256

15. Back Matter

    Pages 257-263

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This unique collection explores the continuing invisibility of much crime and victimization, and the lack of adequate responses to them. Shaping the lens through which criminology and victimology is approached in the twenty-first century, the volume examines major issues including (in)justice, risks, rights, regulation and enforcement.

• Injustice
• social harm
• crime
• invisible
• regulation
• risk
• victims
• victimology
• climate change
• criminology
• environment
• gender
• health
• interaction
• politics
• Sex

"The idea that, if we are to properly understand crime, we have to be prepared to look well beyond official statutes, penal codes and conventional definitions belongs to what is perhaps the most stimulating tradition in criminological analysis. Edwin Sutherland, conflict theorists and abolitionists are outstanding representatives of this tradition, which finds energetic and innovative following in this remarkable collection. A wide range of conducts is addressed, from sexual crimes to environmental damage, from elder abuse to bio-piracy, from health and safety violations to fraud: all invisible crimes causing very visible social harm." - Vincenzo Ruggiero, Middlesex University, UK

'In a world characterized for decades by a relentless harshness toward many kinds of crime, some of the most harmful and destructive actions by corporations, governments, and individuals have largely escaped punishment or even recognition as crimes. Why this should be so, and the consequences of this neglect and 'invisibility' for human well-being and social justice, is the subject of this thoughtful, wide-ranging, and stimulating collection. Invisible Crimes and Social Harms makes a compelling case for moving beyond criminology's conventional boundaries to redefine both what we study and how we study it.' Elliott Curry Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at University of California, Irvine.

'Cogently argued and expertly researched, presented and written Invisible Crimesand Social Harms is a timely and trenchant reminder that a plethora of deleterious yet "relatively invisible" illegalities and harms continue to persist. Nevertheless they exist beyond the investigatory scope of much criminological scholarship. Accordingly, the book's contribution towards illuminating the contours of invisibility by facilitating the advancement of new and progressive research capable of challenging popular conceptualizations of crime and harm is indeed a salient one. [...] Quite simply, this book is a remarkable triumph and deserves to be widely read not only amongst criminologists but by anyone interested in crime, harm, criminal and social justice.' - Justin Kotzé and Evi Boukli, British Journal of Criminology

• Northumbria University, UK

  Pamela Davies, Peter Francis, Tanya Wyatt

Avi Brisman, Eastern Kentucky University, USA Alexandra Hall, Northumbria University and Teesside University, UK Matthew Hall, University of Lincoln, UK Mary Laing, Northumbria University, UK Michael Levi, Cardiff University, UK Wayne Morrison, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Reece Walters, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Hayley Watson, Trilateral Research and Consultancy Group, UK

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