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Health and Safety ‘Crimes’ in Britain: The Great Disappearing Act

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Invisible Crimes and Social Harms

Part of the book series: Critical Criminological Perspectives ((CCRP))

Abstract

This chapter provides an (empirically informed) reminder of the fact that for politicians, the media, the wider public and, indeed, some academics, some crimes are less visible than others. Moreover, as will be demonstrated, this relative lack of visibility is not static, but dynamic, while at the same time it is always subject to contest and struggle.

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  1. Northumbria University, UK

    Pamela Davies (Teaching Fellow and Programme Director of Criminology), Peter Francis (Professor of Learning and Teaching and Pro-Vice Chancellor) & Tanya Wyatt (Principal Lecturer in Criminology) (Teaching Fellow and Programme Director of Criminology),  (Professor of Learning and Teaching and Pro-Vice Chancellor) &  (Principal Lecturer in Criminology)

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Tombs, S. (2014). Health and Safety ‘Crimes’ in Britain: The Great Disappearing Act. In: Davies, P., Francis, P., Wyatt, T. (eds) Invisible Crimes and Social Harms. Critical Criminological Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137347824_11

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