Introduction to special issue 'Crime and Social Harm: Working together on life's wicked problems'.
This special issue brings together new interdisciplinary analyses of the painful impacts of criminalization, social harm and inequalities in a time of global poly-crisis and 'super-wicked problems'. Our ideas and framing of criminality, justice and harm permeate, and reflect, the societies we live i...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Criminology Vol. 66; no. 4; pp. 719 - 733 |
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