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Author_Gary Slapper
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commercially-related deaths
Coroner's Court
Coroner’s Court
coronial inquest procedures
Corporate Crime
Corporate Killing
Corporate Manslaughter
corporate manslaughter law
Cps
criminal law
criminal prosecution of workplace deaths
Crown Prosecution Service
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Fatal Accident Rates
Ford Motor Company
Gross Negligence Manslaughter
health and safety regulation
HSE
HSE Director
Inquest Jury
Involuntary Manslaughter
Law Commission
legal responses
Manslaughter Charges
Manslaughter Prosecutions
Mens Rea
occupational fatalities
Preston Crown Court
Reckless Manslaughter
regulatory enforcement UK
social axiom
Social Inquiry Report
UK Construction Company
Unlawful Act Manslaughter
Unlawful Killing
Unlawful Killing Verdict
workplace criminal liability
Workplace Deaths
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781138611672
- Weight: 690g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 18 Sep 2018
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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’.
