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<p>My current research interests span a number of related areas.</p><p>One is a focus on
the enforcement of environmental, food, and occupational health and safety law;
my research has quantitative and qualitative dimensions and focusses in particular
on the period from 2004 when the'Better Regulation' initiative was rolled
out in the UK. This in turn relates to a wider research project, focusing upon both
the idea as well as the practices of regulation'after the crisis', this entailing
critical examinations of the relationships between local and national states on the
one hand and the production of corporate harm on the other, as well as a critical
engagement with academic attempts to understand these relationships. This is the subject
of a book,<a href="https://policypress.co.uk/social-protection-after-the-crisis" rel="nofollow">Social
Protection After the Crisis: regulation without enforcement</a>, 2016, Bristol: Policy
Press. Some of the core themes of the book were also explored in a short Briefing,<a
href="https://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/publications/better-regulation-better-whom"
rel="nofollow">‘Better Regulation’: better for whom?</a></p><p>This work
has also generated conceptual considerations regarding the utility and validity of
the relatively recent concept of'state-corporate crime'. In this context I
have sought to develop an argument around the increasing salience of a state-corporate symbiosis
for the production of crime and harm. In 2018, I co-edited, with Steven Bittle,
Laureen Snider and David Whyte<em><a href="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781351815376"
rel="nofollow">Revisiting Crimes of the Powerful. Marxism. crime and deviance</a>. </em></p><p>Further,
I continue to work on the impacts and potential of a'social harm' perspective,
as part of an ongoing, critical engagement with the limitations of the dominant concerns
of more mainstream criminology; and part of this is an emergent critique of the (lack
of impact) of recent and current crises upon criminology and socio-legal studies.</p><p>Finally,
I have long worked, and continue to work, with David Whyte on various (academic, policy-oriented
and campaigning) critical engagements with national health and safety and environmental
regulation, in terms of both policy and practice, and on corporate crime more generally.
Our most recent book was<a href="https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Corporate_Criminal.html?id=FlqsBwAAQBAJ&source=kp_cover&redir_esc=y"
rel="nofollow">The Corporate Criminal. Why corporations must be abolished</a>, published
in 2015 and re-published in a Spanish translation in 2016.</p><h4><strong>PhD Supervision</strong></h4><p>I
am currently supervising and have recently supervised PhD students in the areas
of corporate killing, corporate crime, regulation, policing and restorative
justice.</p><p>I have also examined numerous PhDs, including those awarded at the
Universities of Birmingham, Edge Hill, Lancaster, Macquarie (Sydney), Middlesex, New
South Wales, Northumbria, Paisley, Queens (Kingston, Ontario), Southampton, Sydney,
the University of Wales and the London School of Economics and Political Science.</p><p>I
welcome applications for PhD study in any area connected to my research interests.</p><div><strong>Books
and Pamphlets</strong></div><p>Bittle, S., Snider, L., Tombs, S. and Whyte, D., eds.
(2018)<em>Revisiting Crimes of the Powerful. Marxism, crime and deviance</em>, London:
Routledge, 978-0-415-79142-7, xlix+341 pages.</p><p>Tombs, S. and Whyte, D. (2016)<em>La
Empresa Criminal. Por qué las corporaciones deben ser abolidas</em>, Icaria
Editorial. (Spanish translation of Tombs and Whyte, 2015,<em>The Corporate Criminal</em>,
below).</p><p>Tombs, S. (2016)<em>Social Protection After the Crisis: regulation without
enforcement</em>, Bristol: Policy Press, Viii+268 pages.</p><p>Tombs, S. (2016)<em>'Better
Regulation': better for whom?</em>, London: Centre for Crime and Justice Studies,
978-1-906003-50-0, 16 pages.</p><p>Tombs, S. and Whyte, D. (2015)<em>The Corporation
as Criminal. Why corporations must be abolished,</em>London: Routledge, 978-0-415-55637,
viii+208 pages.</p><p>Pearce, F. and Tombs, S. (2012)<em>Bhopal. Flowers at the altar
of profit and power,</em>North Somercotes: CrimeTalk Books, 978-0-9570241-6-8.</p><p>Tombs,
S. and Whyte, D. (2010)<em>Regulatory Surrender: death, injury and the non-enforcement
of law,</em>London: Institute of Employment Rights, 978 1 906703 10 3, iv+101 pages.</p><p>Coleman,
R., Sim, J., Tombs, S. and Whyte, D., eds. (2009)<em>State, Power, Crime</em>, London:
Sage, 9781412948050, xviii+278 pages.</p><p>Tombs, S. and Whyte, D. (2008) <em>A
Crisis of Enforcement: the decriminalisation of death and injury at work</em>,
London: Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, ISSN 1746-6946, 12 pages. </p><p>Dorling,
D., Gordon, D., Hillyard, P., Pantazis, C., Pemberton, S. and Tombs, S. (2008)<em>Criminal
Obsessions. Why harm matters more than crime. Second Edition</em>, London: Crime and
Society Foundation, 978-1-906003-14-2, 97 pages.</p><p>Tombs, S. and Whyte, D. (2007)<em>Safety
Crimes</em>, Cullompton: Willan, 978-1-84392-085-4, xviii + 253 pages.</p><p>Hillyard,
P., Pantazis, C., Tombs, S., Gordon, D. and Dorling, D. (2005)<em>Criminal Obsessions.
Why harm matters more than crime</em>, London: Crime and Society Foundation, 0-9548903-1-0,
72 pages.</p><p>Hillyard, P., Pantazis, C., Tombs, S. and Gordon, D., eds. (2004)<em>Beyond
Criminology? Taking Harm Seriously,</em>London: Pluto Press, 0745319033, x + 319 pages.</p><p>Tombs,
S. and Whyte, D., eds. (2003)<em>Unmasking the Crimes of the Powerful: scrutinising
states and corporations</em>, New York/London: Peter Lang, 0-8204-56918, xvi + 318
pages.</p><p>Coles, E., Smith, D. and Tombs, S., eds. (2000)<em>Risk, Management and
Society</em>, Kluwer-Nijhoff, 0-7923-6899-1, xv + 300 pages.</p><p>Slapper, G. and
Tombs, S. (1999)<em>Corporate Crime,</em>London: Addison Wesley Longman, 0-582-29980-2,
xi + 279 pages.</p><p>Member of Health and Safety project team which prepared<em>Regulating
Health and Safety at Work: the way forward</em>, 1999, London: Institute of Employment
Rights, 1 873271 72 7, xx + 152 pages.</p><p>Pearce, F. and Tombs, S. (1998)<em>Toxic
Capitalism: corporate crime and the chemical industry,</em>Aldershot: Ashgate, 1 85521
950 6, xii + 372 pages.</p><p>Gallagher, K., Rose, E., Reynolds, J., McClelland, R.
and Tombs, S. (1996)<em>People in Organisations. An Active Learning Approach</em>,
Oxford: Blackwell, 0-631-20181-5, xxiv + 659 pages.</p><div><strong>Articles in Refereed
Journals (since 2010)</strong></div><p>Tombs, S. (2019) Grenfell: the unfolding dimensions
of social harm,<em>Justice, Power and Resistance</em>, (forthcoming).</p><p>Tombs,
S. (2018) The UK’s Corporate Killing Law: Un/fit for purpose?<em>Criminology&
Criminal Justice,</em>18 (4), September, 488-507.</p><p>Hillyard, P. and Tombs, S.
(2018) Para além da criminologia?,<em>Revista Brasileira de Ciências
Criminais</em>, [Brazilian Journal of Criminal Sciences] 142. (26), 273-299.</p><p>Tombs,
S. (2016) Making Better Regulation, making regulation better?,<em>Policy Studies</em>,
37, (4), 332-349. </p><p>Tombs, S. (2015) Crisis, What Crisis? Regulation and
the academic orthodoxy,<em>Special Issue of The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice</em>,
54, (1), February, 57-72.</p><p>Tombs, S. and Whyte. D. (2015) Introduction.
Crimes of the Powerful,<em>Special Issue of The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice</em>,
54, (1), February, 1-7.</p><p>Tombs, S. and Whyte., D. (2015) Counterblast: Crime,
Harm and the State-Corporate Nexus,<em>Special Issue of The Howard Journal of Criminal
Justice</em>, 54, (1), February, 91-95.</p><p>Tombs, S. and Whyte, D. (2014) Toxic
Capital Everywhere: mapping the co-ordinates of regulatory tolerance, Special Issue
of<em>Social Justice. Bhopal and after: The chemical industry as Toxic Capitalism</em>,
41(1/2), December, 28-48.</p><p>Tombs, S. (2013) Still Killing with Impunity: the
reform of corporate criminal liability in the UK,<em>Policy and Practice in Health
and Safety</em>, 11, (2), 63-81.</p><p>Tombs, S. (2013) Working for the‘Free’
Market: state complicity in routine corporate harm in the UK, Special Issue of<em>Revista
Crítica Penal y Poder</em>[Critical Review of<em>Criminal Critique and Power</em>].
Rede<em>fining the Criminal Matter: State Crimes, Mass Atrocities and Social Harm</em>,
5, September, 291-313.</p><p>Tombs, S. and Whyte, D. (2013) The Myths and Realities
of Deterrence in Workplace Safety Regulation,<em>British Journal of Criminology</em>,
53(5), 746-763.</p><p>Tombs, S. and Hillyard, P. (2013)¿Más allá
de la criminología? [Beyond Criminology?],<em>Revista Crítica Penal
y Poder</em>[Critical Review of Criminal Critique and Power], 4, March, 175-196.</p><p>James,
P., Tombs, S. and Whyte, D. (2013) An Independent Review of British Health and Safety
Regulation? From common-sense to non-sense,<em>Policy Studies</em>34, (1), 36-52.</p><p>Tombs,
S. and Whyte, D. (2013) Transcending the Deregulation Debate? Regulation, risk and
the enforcement of health and safety law in the UK,<em>Regulation& Governance</em>,
7(1), March, 61-79.</p><p>Tombs, S. (2012) State-Corporate Symbiosis in the Production
of Crime and Harm,<em>State Crime</em>, 1(2), October, 170-195.</p><p>Pemberton, S.,
Tombs, S., Chan, M. and Seal, L. (2012) Whistleblowing, Organisational Harm and the
Self-Regulating Organisation,<em>Policy& Politics</em>, 40, (2) April, 263-279.</p><p>Snell,
K. and Tombs, S. (2011)'How Do You Get Your Voice Heard When No-One Will Let You?'
Victimisation at work,<em>Criminology& Criminal Justice</em>, 11, (3), 207–223.</p><p>Tombs,
S. andWhyte, D. (2010) A Deadly Consensus: worker safety and regulatory degradation
under New Labour,<em>British Journal of Criminology</em>, 50, (1), 46-65.</p> |