Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 685 g
Reihe: Routledge Revivals
Social and Legal Aspects of Death at Work
Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 685 g
Reihe: Routledge Revivals
ISBN: 978-1-138-61167-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
First published in 1999, this volume is based upon a detailed empirical study of 40 cases of commercially-related deaths - the first such English study. The cases are taken from 20 towns and cities in England. Slapper critically examines the theory and practice of the legal response to such deaths. The conduct of the Health and Safety Executive, the police, coroner, lawyers and the Crown Prosecution Service are analyzed in detail. He executes his analysis in three stages: events are first scrutinized in the context of the law that governs them; the deaths and official responses are then considered in the context of the psychology of the decision-makers; and finally the dramas are looked at in a wider context of political economy. Slapper draws several disturbing conclusions. His original empirical research, based on attending coroner’s hearings and interviewing those interviewing those involved in enforcing safety laws, shows how and why potentially criminal behaviour at work is constructed as merely regulatory misbehaviour or even as no more than an unavoidable ‘accident’.
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1. The Theoretical Framework: Criminal Law, Manslaughter, the CPS, the Police, the HSE, and the Coronial Inquest. 2. The Development of Corporate Liability and the Scale of Corporate Risk-Taking. 3. The Legal Process (1): The Police, the CPS and the HSE. 4. The Legal Process (2): The Inquest. 5. Social Perceptions of the Dramatis Personae. 6. The Historical and Economic Context. 7. Legal, Criminological and Social Science Perspectives.
