In 1992, an underground explosion at the Westray Mine in Plymouth, Nova Scotia, killed twenty-six miners. Although the owners of the mine were charged criminally, no one was convicted, largely because it was deemed too difficult to determine legal responsibility. In Still Dying for a Living, Steven Bittle turns a critical eye on Canada's corporate criminal liability law.
In 1992, an underground explosion at the Westray Mine in Plymouth, Nova Scotia, killed twenty-six miners. Although the owners of the mine were char...
In 1992, an underground explosion at the Westray Mine in Plymouth, Nova Scotia, killed twenty-six miners. Although the owners of the mine were charged criminally, no one was convicted, largely because it was deemed too difficult to determine legal responsibility. In Still Dying for a Living, Steven Bittle turns a critical eye on Canada's corporate criminal liability law.
In 1992, an underground explosion at the Westray Mine in Plymouth, Nova Scotia, killed twenty-six miners. Although the owners of the mine were char...
Frank Pearce was one of the first scholars, if not the first, 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, and made important contributions to Marxist understandings of the complex relations between crime, law and the state in the reproduction of the capitalist social order. Coverage of crimes of the powerful had largely been neglected in crime and deviance studies, but there is now an important and growing body of...
Frank Pearce was one of the first scholars, if not the first, to use the term "crimes of the powerful." His ground-breaking book of the same name p...
