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Blamestorming, Blamemongers and Scapegoats Allocating Blame in the Criminal Justice Process

By: Contributor(s): Material type: ArticlePublication details: Policy Press Bristol University Press [Imprint] 2008Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781447305002
Subject(s): Online resources: Summary: 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.
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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.

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