Books written by Steve Tombs

Safety Crimes

Haines, F. (2005) 'Tracking the Regulation Debate', The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 38(1): 141—7. Hale, C. (2004) 'The Politics of Law and Order', in C. Hale, K. Hayward, A. Wahidin and E. Wincup (eds), ...
Social Protection After the Crisis: Regulation Without Enforcement

CARR was a significant initiative, established in October 2000 with £2.58 million ESRC funding, with a further £2.86 million in October 2005; it has also generated significant funding from private sector sources, including £4.7 million ...
Toxic Capitalism: Corporate Crime and the Chemical Industry

... scarce means which have alternative uses' (Robbins 1984:16), where 'ends are capable of being distinguished in order of importance' (Robbins 1984: 14) and that this 'ordering takes place with a view to increasing human welfare' and, ...
The Corporate Criminal: Why Corporations Must Be Abolished

Berle, A. (1962) 'Modern Functions of the Corporate System', Columbia Law Review, vol. 62, no. 3, pp. ... Bittle, S. (2012) Still Dying for a Living: Corporate Criminal Liability after the Westray Mining Disaster, Vancouver: UBC Press.
Revisiting Crimes of the Powerful: Marxism, Crime and Deviance

This book brings together leading international scholars to discuss the legacy of Frank Pearce’s book and his work in this area, demonstrating the invaluable contributions a critical Marxist framework brings to studies of corporate and ...
State, Power, Crime

This work is on the cutting edge of critical criminology.
Unmasking the Crimes of the Powerful: Scrutinizing States & Corporations

Despite the enormous economic, physical and social impacts of crimes committed by states and corporations, they are still relatively under-researched within contemporary social science--partly because of the perpetrator's ability to...
Safety Crimes

This book is concerned with crimes against worker and public safety, providing an account and analysis of this increasingly important field, and setting this within the broader context of corporate and white-collar crime.
From Social Harm to Zemiology: A Critical Introduction

This book outlines key developments in understanding social harm by setting out its historical foundations and the discussions which have proliferated since.
Corporate Crime

This book offers a comprehensive, accessible and student-friendly account of a subject which is becoming of increasing concern and debate amongst criminologists. The key element in its approach will be...
Safety Crimes

... Hazards, 90, April/June: 18–19. Pickvance, S. (2006) Preventing Ill-Health Caused by Work: What Progress? Paper presented at Health and Safety – revitalised or reversed?, London: Institute of Employment Rights, January 18. Piquero, N ...
The Emerald International Handbook of Activist Criminology

... The crime of maldevelopment: Economic deregulation and violence in the global South. Abingdon: Routledge. Brown, M. (2017). The criminologist as a visual scholar in a global mediascape. In M. Brown & E. Carrabine (Eds.), Routledge ...
Risk Management and Society

The contributions to this volume have been selected by adopting a multi-disciplinary approach to risk, and by considering the implications for management, business and society.