Overview
- Provides an excellent resource for academics specialising in crimes of the powerful, and for national and international policy makers in the areas of regulatory enforcement policies, politics, sociology, jurisprudence and law
- Examines the under-criminalisation of health and safety crimes and the problems when challenging public accountable institutions responsible for policing crimes of the powerful
- Draws on qualitative research conducted with front line occupational health and safety enforcement officers in England and Italy
Part of the book series: Critical Criminological Perspectives (CCRP)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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About this book
This book takes a critical approach to examining British and Italian occupational health and safety enforcement policies and questions the legal and political principles that underpin them. The book undertakes a comparative critical analysis of these two jurisdictions’ health and safety regulatory enforcement practices by focusing on the causes and consequences of the under-criminalisation of these crimes. It explores the fundamentals of these two jurisdictions' criminal justice systems and political practices, policies and traditions and exposes how these translate into pragmatic social inequality and injustice for victims of occupational health and safety crimes and, more generally, citizens. Findings are drawn from qualitative interviews conducted with front line occupational health and safety enforcement officers. This book offers an account of the challenges encountered when attempting to scrutinise public institutions responsible for policing crimes of the powerful. The comparison of the political and criminal justice system practices, polices and traditions of the British and Italian legal systems offer a valuable critical contribution to the anglophone literature on the subject and, more generally, on regulatory enforcement policies and practices.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Diego Canciani is Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Roehampton, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Politics and Practice of Occupational Health and Safety Law Enforcement
Authors: Diego Canciani
Series Title: Critical Criminological Perspectives
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98509-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-98508-4Published: 16 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07501-9Published: 26 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-98509-1Published: 04 October 2018
Series ISSN: 2731-0604
Series E-ISSN: 2731-0612
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 300
Number of Illustrations: 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Corporate Crime, Critical Criminology, Policing, Public Law, Criminal Justice