Blamestorming, blamemongers and scapegoats
- Submitting institution
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De Montfort University
- Unit of assessment
- 18 - Law
- Output identifier
- 18027
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1332/policypress/9781447305002.001.0001
- Publisher
- Policy Press
- ISBN
- 9781447305002
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- Yes
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- By synthesising philosophical, psychological and sociological accounts of blame, Dingwall and Hillier’s monograph provides the first sustained criminological study of the legal process of blame attribution, set in the context of criminalisation as a social and political process. As well as arguing that criminal justice scholarship has neglected the importance of apportioning blame, the authors highlight the value of blame as a means of analysing trends in criminal justice policy. The book thus provides a sophisticated multidisciplinary approach to explore a hitherto neglected area of scholarship and deserves to be double weighted.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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