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  • Beyond Criminology

    Taking Harm Seriously

    Edited by Paddy Hillyard, Christina Pantazis, Steve Tombs, Dave Gordon ...
    Crime forms only a small and often insignificant amount of the harm experienced by people. While custom and tradition play an important role in the perpetuation of some types of harm, many forms of harm are rooted in the inequalities and social divisions systematically produced in - and by - contemporary states.Exploring a range of topics including violence, indifference, corporate and state harms ... Read more

    $33.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Crime, Harm and the State

    Edited by Lynne Copson, Eleni Dimou, Steve Tombs ...
    Series series Studies in Social Harm
    Why are some harms defined as crimes while others are not? This pioneering collection disrupts the boundaries of criminology, offering a bold, innovative exploration of crime, state power and social harm across historical and global contexts.Bridging zemiology, governmentality studies, and decolonial theory, this book offers a fresh perspective on how the colonial roots and ongoing dynamics of ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • The Emerald International Handbook of Activist Criminology

    Edited by Victoria Canning, Greg Martin, Steve Tombs ...
    Series series Emerald Studies in Activist Criminology
    Although intervention and campaigning have long been integral to critical criminology, in recent years, criminal justice activism has taken new directions and gathered momentum, especially with the advent of digital technologies and social media. These have made it easier than ever for ordinary citizens and professional journalists alike to comment on perceived injustices and potentially intervene ... Read more

    $151.69 USD

  • From Social Harm to Zemiology

    A Critical Introduction

    by Victoria Canning, Steve Tombs ...
    Series series New Directions in Critical Criminology
    This book outlines key developments in understanding social harm by setting out its historical foundations and the discussions which have proliferated since. It examines various attempts to conceptualise social harm and highlights key sites of contestation in its relationship to criminology to argue that these act as the basis for an activist zemiology, one directed towards social change for ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Marketisation and Privatisation in Criminal Justice

    by Del Roy Fletcher, Steve Tombs, Gerry Czerniawski, Victoria Canning, Monish Bhatia, Mike Nellis, Rob Macmillan, Kevin Wong, Maureen Mansfield, Vickie Cooper, Kate Williams, Mike Maguire, Gisella Hanley Santos, Daniel Gilling, Tim Auburn, Jill Annison, Amy Ludlow, Joanna Hargreaves, Ed Johnston, Tom Smith, Randy Lippert, Kevin Walby, Adam White, Roxanna Dehaghani, Katharina Swirak, Richard Sparks, James Gacek, Chris Fox ...
    This collection offers a comprehensive review of the origins, scale and breadth of the privatisation and marketisation revolution across the criminal justice system.Leading academics and researchers assess the consequences of market-driven criminal justice in a wide range of contexts, from prison and probation to policing, migrant detention, rehabilitation and community programmes. Using economic, ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • State, Power, Crime

    Edited by Roy Coleman, Joe Sim, Steve Tombs, David Whyte ...
    ′Following the outstanding introduction by the authors there are fifteen excellent original articles devoted to an integrated theory of the relationship between the state and crime. This work is on the cutting edge of critical criminology. It is a must read.′ - William J. Chambliss, Professor of Sociology, The George Washington University, USA.′This book is a superb compilation of original papers ... Read more

    $87.29 USD

  • Toxic Capitalism

    Corporate Crime and the Chemical Industry

    by Frank Pearce, Steve Tombs ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1998. While there is a growing academic literature on corporate crime, much of this focuses upon variants of economic or financial crimes; there is a relative absence of studies of safety, health and/or environmental crimes. This is curious given that recent years have witnessed a resurgence in popular, academic and indeed state attention to questions related to ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Unmasking the Crimes of the Powerful

    Scrutinizing States and Corporations

    Edited by Steve Tombs, Dave Whyte ...
    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 evade critical scrutiny. The contributions in this book map out the parameters of a political economy of researching the powerful, marking out the major problems ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Safety Crimes

    by Steve Tombs, Dave Whyte ...
    Series series Crime and Society Series
    Every year in the UK, hundreds of workers are killed just doing their jobs, thousands more die of illnesses caused by their work and tens of thousands suffer major injuries such as amputations, loss of sight, serious burns, and so on. Worldwide, two million people are killed by work each year. Yet with the exception of high profile cases such as the gas leak at Bhopal, India, which killed tens of ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Social Protection after the Crisis

    Regulation without Enforcement

    by Steve Tombs ...
    UK austerity policies include anti-regulatory pressures to ‘free up’ private capital to produce wealth, employment and tax revenues. This topical book by a recognised scholar on the regulation of corporate crime and social harm considers the economic, political and social consequences of the economic crisis, the nature of social protection and the dynamics of the current crisis of regulation. It ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Corporate Criminal

    Why Corporations Must Be Abolished

    by Steve Tombs, David Whyte ...
    Series series Key Ideas in Criminology
    Drawing upon a wide range of sources of empirical evidence, historical analysis and theoretical argument, this book shows beyond any doubt that the private, profit-making, corporation is a habitual and routine offender. The book dissects the myth that the corporation can be a rational, responsible, 'citizen'. It shows how in its present form, the corporation is permitted, licensed and encouraged ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Revisiting Crimes of the Powerful

    Marxism, Crime and Deviance

    Edited by Steven Bittle, Laureen Snider, Steve Tombs, David Whyte ...
    Series series Crimes of the Powerful
    Frank Pearce was the first scholar to use the term 'crimes of the powerful.' His ground-breaking book of the same name provided insightful critiques of liberal orthodox criminology, particularly in relation to labelling theory and symbolic interactionism, while making important contributions to Marxist understandings of the complex relations between crime, law and the state in the reproduction of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD