Blamestorming, Blamemongers and Scapegoats
Allocating blame in the criminal justice process
Auteur
Dingwall, Gavin
Hillier, Tim
Language
EnglishRésumé
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence We live in a society that is increasingly preoccupied with allocating blame: when something goes wrong someone must be to blame. Bringing together philosophical, psychological, and sociological accounts of blame, 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. This timely and topical book will be essential reading for anyone working or researching in the criminal justice field. It will also be of wider interest to anyone wishing to discover the role of blame in modern society.
Keywords
Blame; Blamemongers; Blamestorming; Criminalisation; Culpability; Harm; ScapegoatsPublication date and place
Bristol, UK, 2015Imprint
Policy PressClassification
Crime & criminology
Crime and criminology