Home as a Site of State-Corporate Violence: Grenfell Tower, Aetiologies and Aftermaths

Tombs, Steve (2020). Home as a Site of State-Corporate Violence: Grenfell Tower, Aetiologies and Aftermaths. Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, 59(2) pp. 120–142.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12360

Abstract

Focusing on the aftermaths and consequences of the Grenfell Tower fire, this article reveals the factors which combined to produce a fire that could have such devastating effects. Further, it delineates the discrete ways in which distinct types of harms – physical, emotional and psychological, cultural and relational, and financial and economic – continue to be produced by a combination of State and corporate acts and omissions. Some of these harms are readily apparent, others are opaque and obscured. It concludes by showing how failures to mitigate these factors constitute one manifestation of the more general phenomenon of ‘social murder’.

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