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Tombs, Steve and Whyte, David
(2010).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azp063
Abstract
This paper documents the vulnerability of the UK workplace safety regime to ‘regulatory degradation’. Following a brief overview of this regime, the paper examines the dominant arguments within academic literature on appropriate and feasible regulatory enforcement, arguing that the approaches to regulation thereby advocated have been easily degraded as a result of their compatibility with neo-liberal economic strategy. A subsequent analysis of empirical trends within safety enforcement reveals a virtual collapse of formal enforcement, as political and resource pressures have taken their toll on the regulatory authority. Finally, the paper indicates that the increasing impunity with which employers can kill and injure is particularly problematic as we enter sustained economic recession, and underlines the urgent need for regulatory alternatives.
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- Item ORO ID
- 36317
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 1464-3529
- Keywords
- safety crimes; regulation; deregulation; enforcement; health and safety; neoliberalism , risk
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies > Social Policy and Criminology
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) - Research Group
- Harm and Evidence Research Collaborative (HERC)
- Copyright Holders
- © 2009 The Author. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (ISTD)
- Depositing User
- Steve Tombs