Invisible Crimes and Social Harms

by Davies, Pamela; Francis, Peter; Wyatt, Tanya

• ISBN13: 9781137347817
• ISBN10: 1137347813
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-11-05
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Tthis unique collection, focussing on invisible crimes, social harms and victimisations represents forms a critical perspective on the continuing invisibility of much crime and victimisation in the UK and overseas.and offers new insight into methodologies capable of examining it. Within its pages, tThe volume explores the various ''spaces'' of invisibility –- the body, home, street, environment, state and virtual world – to develop a framework of typological underpinnings applicable to a range of crimes and harms that tend to remain obscured or hidden through various examples and case studies. It examines the broader reasons for the relative invisibility of some crimes and social harms and how various victims and injustices have become more visible or rendered less so over time and place.

This volume revisits and elaborates upon the 'seven features of invisibility' that were introduced in the acclaimed earlier text, Invisible Crimes (1999), and aligns this with current knowledge and research.This fully revised collection, with six new chapters, shapes the lens through which the study and knowledge of criminology and victimology is approached in the twenty-first century. It will be a vital resource for scholars to think critically about research, theory, and policy and practice in relation to the nature and types of invisible crimes at individual and institutional levels.

Author Biography

Pam Davies is a Principal Lecturer and Teaching Fellow at Northumbria University, UK.
 
Professor Peter Francis is Pro Vice Chancellor (Learning and Teaching) at Northumbria University, UK.
 
Tanya Wyatt is a Senior Lecturer at Northumbria University, UK. Her latest publications include Wildlife Trafficking (Palgrave, 2013) and co-editor of Emerging Issues in Green Criminology (Palgrave, 2013).

Table of Contents

Foreword: Seeing the Invisible; Nigel South
1. Taking Invisible Crimes and Social Harms Seriously; Pamela Davies, Peter Francis, Tanya Wyatt
2. Gender First: The Secret to Revealing Sexual Crimes and Victimisations; Pamela Davies
3. Politics, Power and the Media: the Visibility of Environmental and Eco-terrorism; Tanya Wyatt and Hayley Watson
4. The Visual Acuity of Climate Change; Avi Brisman
5. 'Honour' Crimes; Alexandra Hall
6. Elder Abuses; Matthew Hall
7. Selling Sex Invisibly: Solicitation as an Invisible Crime; Mary Laing
8. Air Pollution and Invisible Violence; Reece Walters
9. Invisible Pillaging: Corporate Bio Piracy; Tanya Wyatt
10. War and Normative Visibility: Interactions in the Nomos; Wayne Morrison
11. Health and Safety 'Crimes' in Britain: the Great Disappearing Act; Steve Tombs
12. Regulating Fraud Revisited; Mike Levi
13. Invisible Crimes, Social Harms and the Radical Criminological Tradition; Peter Francis, Pamela Davies, Tanya Wyatt