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Crime, Harm and the State

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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2025

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Why are some harms defined as crimes while others are not? This pioneering collection disrupts the boundaries of criminology, offering a bold, innovative exploration of crime, state power and social harm across historical and global contexts.

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    Front Matter

    i
    Lynne Copson, Eleni Dimou and Steve Tombs
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    Contents

    v
    Lynne Copson, Eleni Dimou and Steve Tombs
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    Series Editors’ Preface

    vii
    Christina Pantazis and Simon Pemberton
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    Notes on Contributors

    ix
    Lynne Copson, Eleni Dimou and Steve Tombs
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    Acknowledgements

    xii
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    1 Introducing Crime, Harm and the State

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    Lynne Copson, Eleni Dimou and Steve Tombs
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  • PART I Drugs: A Case Study of Crime and Harm
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    2 The War on Drugs: From Crime to Harm?

    25
    Giulia Federica Zampini and Camille May Stengel
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    3 Consuming Drugs: Soft Drugs, Colonialism and Slavery

    49
    Eleni Dimou
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    4 Dealing in Drugs

    69
    Steve Tombs
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  • PART II Questions of Harm
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    5 Criminology, Harm and Nonhuman Animals

    91
    Matthew Melsa
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    6 Crime, Harm and Sexuality

    110
    Teresa Willis
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    7 Where’s the Harm in Tourism?

    129
    Eleni Dimou
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    8 Crime and Harm in the Food Industry

    152
    Steve Tombs
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  • PART III Exploring Borders
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    9 Understanding States: Making Law, Making Order?

    175
    Gerry Mooney and Steve Tombs
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    10 Crossing Borders

    194
    Evgenia Iliadou
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    11 Policing Borders: States of Surveillance

    216
    Teresa Willis
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    12 State Crime, Social Harm and Genocide

    234
    Penny Green
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    13 Power, Environmental Harm and the Threat of Global Ecocide

    254
    Nigel South and Reece Walters
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    14 Redrawing Borders: Crime, Harm and the State

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    Lynne Copson
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    Index

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    Lynne Copson, Eleni Dimou and Steve Tombs
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