About this event
We are taught that the greatest harms faced by citizens, are crimes dealt with by the police, courts and other criminal justice agencies. Professor Tombs’ Briefing makes clear that this is far from the case.
An estimated 29,000 deaths each year in the UK are attributable to the effects of airborne pollution. Some one million cases of foodborne illness in the UK each year results in 20,000 hospital admissions and 500 deaths. Around 50,000 people die each year as a result of injuries or health problems originating in the workplace.
These staggering figures are probably underestimates. The litany of lives shortened and health impaired to which these figures bear witness are also largely avoidable. Yet, as Professor Tombs points out in 'Better Regulation’: Better for whom?, the rate of inspection and enforcement actions for environmental pollution, food hygiene, and workers' health and safety have all been falling. The harm about which he writes are ‘avoidable business-generated, state facilitated violence: social murder. And, quite remarkably, it proceeds, daily – met only by academic, political and popular silence’.
About the publication
This Briefing is a contribution to breaking this silence. It reflects the Centre’s commitment to informing public understanding of the role and limitations of criminal justice processes, and to fostering a greater knowledge of the harms faced by citizens, and of how they might best be regulated and reduced.
About the speaker
Professor Steve Tombs is Professor of Criminology at the Open University.
Venue, time and for 26 April London launch:
- There is a second launch event in Liverpool on Wednesday 27 April 2016. Details can be found here
2 Langley Lane
London, SW8 1GB
United Kingdom
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