When it comes to crime, everyone seems to take evil seriously as an explanatory concept - except criminologists. This book asks why, and why not, through exploring a variety of interdisciplinary approaches to evil from the perspectives of theology, philosophy, literary and cultural studies, and the social sciences.
Format: Paperback / softback
CONTRIBUTORS: Melissa Dearey
EAN: 9781349456161
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 3503 g
HEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave Macmillan
DATE PUBLISHED: 2014-01-01
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GENRE: PSYCHOLOGY / Personality, RELIGION / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
WIDTH: 140 cm
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Book Themes:
Crime and criminology, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Ethics and moral philosophy, Religion: general
Melissa Dearey is a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Hull, UK. Her teaching and research interests focus on interdisciplinary theories of crime, deviance and evil, green criminology and competing public and academic explanations of crime.
