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Death by the Powerful : Invisibility and Social Harm.
De Gruyter Bristol University Press/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2026 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Snell, Katy.
- Series:
- Studies in Social Harm Series
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (213 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- This book reveals the true cost of corporate harm to bereaved families, exposing media silence and weakened regulations in cases such as the Hillsborough and Grenfell disasters.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Series Information
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Series Editors' Preface
- About the Author
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Aims, Methodology, Chapter Outline
- Accidental
- A note on definitions
- Chapter outline
- Chapter 1 - Safety Crime: Criminology and Social Harm
- Chapter 2 - A Biography of Harm, Victims and Secondary Victims of the Powerful: Deaths by Private Institutions
- Chapter 3 - A Common Response: Deaths by Public Institutions
- Chapter 4 - How Victims and Secondary Victims Are Pushed to Invisibility
- Chapter 5 - Harmful Effects on Secondary Victims
- Conclusion - Alternative Social Arrangements as the Counter to Invisibility and Harm
- Note
- 1 Safety Crime: Criminology and Social Harm
- White-collar crime is real crime
- Providing proof rather than illustrations
- Criminality, not the criminal
- Legitimizing the existence of corporate crime
- Cultural immunity
- Congressmen and businessmen
- Neoliberalism
- Innovative entrepreneurs
- Embryonic law
- A victim of the powerful
- Resistance
- Sociological theory
- Criminal justice studies
- Muting the chat: social harm and zemiology
- Breaking from the criminal justice system
- Biography of harm
- Activism
- Conclusion
- 2 A Biography of Harm, Victims and Secondary Victims of the Powerful: Deaths by Private Institutions
- A victim of safety crime
- Michael
- The police
- The corporation
- The inquest
- The HSE
- Court
- David
- Thes HSE
- Paul
- The court
- Mark
- Police
- Misc
- John
- HSE
- Inquest
- Legal
- James
- Andrew
- The police.
- The HSE
- Court case
- Robert
- Corporation
- FAI
- Phillip
- Media
- Jason
- Luke
- Summary
- No investigation
- Delay
- No victim, no criminal
- Suppressed truth
- 3 A Common Response: Deaths by Public Institutions
- The Hillsborough Disaster
- Selected evidence
- Suppression of the truth
- State killing
- The Grenfell Fire
- 4 How Victims and Secondary Victims Are Pushed to Invisibility
- No crime scene, no evidence
- Delay and the selection of evidence
- Coroner direction
- Unlawful killing
- The Crown Court
- Designed not to work - lex imperfecta
- No/selective evidence and delays
- Benefit of clergy
- Independent bodies: the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), inquiries, committees and the HSE
- Delay and selected evidence
- Inadequate response
- A restricted agency
- The blameworthy victim
- No criminal, no victim
- One-off, random events
- Conclusion.
- 5 Harmful Effects on Secondary Victims
- Physical, emotional and psychological harm
- In life, as in death
- Secondary victims
- 'Theatre of law'
- Callousness
- Ripple effect
- Delayed - pushed to insignificance
- Financial and economic harms
- The affordability of justice
- Harms of recognition as a manifestation of cultural harm
- Nuisance when not invisible
- Pressure and frustration
- Autonomy harms
- Honouring their loved one
- Altering their behaviour
- Conclusion: Alternative Social Arrangements as the Counter to Invisibility and Harm
- Organized resentment and weakness of victims
- Collective struggle and refusal
- The aims of collective action
- Challenging hegemony, changing the law
- Ensuring the current law works
- Providing emotional support
- Measuring success
- Appendix Methodology and Research Questions
- Research questions
- Research groups
- Research on secondary victims: interviews with families
- Analysis
- Ethics
- Limitations and implications
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5292-3397-6
- OCLC:
- 1589179861
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