Most readers of Society a Animals probably will notnknow that among the multi-disciplinary practitionersnof criminology there is longstanding and, at times,nquite heated disagreement about its proper objectsnof study. As a sociologist, I understand criminologynto be a discourse that investigates the whys, the hows,nand the whens of the generation and control of thenmany aspects of social harmmincluding abuse, exclusion,npain, injury, and...
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