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59f81c42798a46d8f41a3a1eada242ca |
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Date |
2013-12 |
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repository |
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Is Part Of |
p14773996 |
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abstract |
After some 14 years in the making, 2007 saw the passage of the UK’s Corporate Manslaughter
and Corporate Homicide Act, which came into force in 2008. The aim of the Act was
to facilitate the prosecution of medium and larger organisations following work-related
deaths. It is with the nature and potential of such prosecutions that this paper is
concerned. The paper begins by noting the emergence of the Act, before focusing on
the three cases taken under it to date. The paper then considers reasons for there
being, thus far, only three prosecutions under the Act, and addresses this at three
levels: in relation to the law itself, the way in which it is enforced, and the wider
political and economic contexts in which it has emerged. It concludes that the law
may have symbolic significance only – albeit that this is not to dismiss it as wholly
irrelevant. |
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authorList |
authors |
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issue |
2 |
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status |
peerReviewed |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/208500 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/208509 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/208518 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/208519 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/208520 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/208521 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/208776 |
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volume |
11 |
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type |
AcademicArticle |
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type |
Article |
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label |
Tombs, Steve (2013). Still killing with impunity: corporate criminal law reform
in the UK. Policy and Practice in Health and Safety, 11(2) pp. 63–80. |
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label |
Tombs, Steve (2013). Still killing with impunity: corporate criminal law reform
in the UK. Policy and Practice in Health and Safety, 11(2) pp. 63–80. |
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Title |
Still killing with impunity: corporate criminal law reform in the UK |
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oro |