Download or read book Demonising the Other written by Philip Whitehead and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, societies have established "others"--groups, often defined through differences of culture, race, gender, or class, that have been demonized by the majority. In this book, Philip Whitehead challenges the idea that such demonization is an inevitable fact of life. He lays out the historical criminalization of the other and looks closely at modern attempts to prevent it through changes to criminal justice systems, ultimately questioning whether such approaches can be effective at altering the conditions of existence that are responsible for the creation of the other.