Chapter 23 Essay questions

  1. What is ‘crime’?
  2. “For some within criminology, there was a sense that Beyond Criminology represented the ‘emperor’s new clothes’” Pemberton (2015: 5). Discuss.
  3. Critically discuss the relationship between criminology and the state.
  4. Does harm matter more than crime?
  5. Critically discuss the relationships between critical criminology, social harm, and zemiology.
  6. Criminology, however radical, can never escape distorting the amount of harm done by ordinary decent criminals compared with other harm creators. Discuss.
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