Blamestorming, Blamemongers and Scapegoats: Allocating Blame in the Criminal Justice Process

ISBN-13: 9781447304999 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 216 str.

Gavin Dingwall

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.