Why We Harm |
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| Author:
| Presser, Lois |
| Series title: | Critical Issues in Crime and Society Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8135-8349-5 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2013 |
| Publisher: | Rutgers University Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $24.95 |
Book Description:
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This timely book 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. Chapter by chapter, it examines statements made by perpetrators of a wide variety of harmful actions, identifying the logics they...
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This timely book 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. Chapter by chapter, it examines statements made by perpetrators of a wide variety of harmful actions, identifying the logics they share that motivate, legitimize, and sustain them and mapping out strategies for reducing harm.