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Whose Harm Counts? Exploring the Intersections of War and Gendered Violence(s)

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Hagan (The Criminologist: The Official Newsletter of the American Society of Criminology 40:2–4, 2015) makes the case that criminology has been ‘silent’ on the 2003 war in Iraq as a ‘war of aggression’. Whether or not criminology has been silent on war, it has certainly been quiet about its gendered consequences. In the face of mass migration to Europe, plenty consideration has been given to policing the borders, the problems of trafficking and so on. Less consideration has been paid to the consequences of migration on those fleeing and those countries being fled to. Arguably, the tensions generated by these intersecting questions came to a head in Cologne on New Year’s Eve 2015 (amongst other locations). Against this backcloth, this chapter will explore the questions of, whose harm counts, under what conditions and how a gendered lens might cast some light on how criminology or indeed zemiology, or anyone else, can make sense of the presently precarious social conditions across Europe.

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Walklate, S. (2018). Whose Harm Counts? Exploring the Intersections of War and Gendered Violence(s). In: Boukli, A., Kotzé, J. (eds) Zemiology. Critical Criminological Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76312-5_7

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