Crime, Criminality and Injustice

An Interdisciplinary Collection of Revelations

Edited by Simon Prideaux, Mustapha Sheikh, Adam Formby

Publication date:

14 February 2023

Publisher

Anthem Press

Dimensions:

229x153mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781839986529

This volume contributes to the growing literature on global (in)justice and (in)equality, seeking in its own unique way to highlight that we are on a dangerous path when we ignore the plight of those who are the weakest, most oppressed and disenfranchised; and that we risk even more when we are complicit in the intransigent and profound injustices they experience. As Blunt (2020) powerfully argued, while for those who this volume is dedicated will possibly not be its readers, it is those readers in positions of power and affluence who need to be reminded and held responsible for their actions and the subsequent consequences.

Acknowledgements; List of Editors and Contributors; Editor’s Introduction to the Book; Part One Incarceration, Cultural Destruction and Ecocide: The Alienation of Ethnic Minorities, Nature and Indigenous Peoples; Chapter One The Detainment of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, China: A Case Study of State and Corporate Crime?; Chapter Two ‘Will It Ever End?’ The Continuous Cycle of Inequalities Faced by Romani Gypsy, Roma Traveller Populations; Chapter Three The Destruction of the Amazon: State-Corporate Ecocide; Part Two The Impoverishment, Exclusion and Maltreatment of the Working Poor; Chapter Four Austerity Britain: A Case Study of State Crimes against the Working Poor; Chapter Five Social Harm and the UK ‘Kickstart’ to Same Old, Same Old Youth Employment Policies?; Chapter Six Informal Workers: From Atomised Objects to Collective Subjects; Part Three Disability, Poverty and Neglect; Chapter Seven Disabled People’s Street-Begging: An Ancient Livelihood Necessitated by Urbanity; Chapter Eight Impact of Art and Sensory Experiences in the Physical Activities of Young People Affected by Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities; Chapter Nine Access to Justice for Disabled People in Nigeria: A Case Study of a Therapeutic Day Care Centre; Part Four Youth, Gender, Migration and Human Trafficking; Chapter Ten An Injustice of Youth: The Social Harm and Marginalisation of Young People in the UK; Chapter Eleven Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation in the UK; Chapter Twelve Deaths and Social Harm: The Trajectories of Pregnant Refugees Attempting to Cross the Mediterranean in Search for Europe; Concluding Remarks; Index

“This is an important contribution to current debates around inequality and injustice. By bringing the theme of injustice to the centre of the book the text brings to the fore a theme often left by the sidelines in contemporary debates around crime and inequality. The editors have curated a wide range of international authors on a broad range of topics demonstrating the centrality of their core theme” —Professor Paul Bagguley, University of Leeds, UK.