This book provides an account of the international emergence of corporate manslaughter offences to criminalise deaths in the workplace during the last twenty years, identifying the limitations of health and safety regulation that have prompted this development.

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"Almond seeks to 'explain and better understand contemporary trends towards the use of criminal law as a means for holding corporate bodies accountablefor work-related deaths'. This book offers an important contribution given the increasing dominance of corporations, especially multinational ones, in political, social, and economic spheres. While his analysis concentrates on

the United Kingdom, the United States, and to a lesser degree, Australia, Almond's consideration of corporate culpability is truly international." - Criminal Law and Criminal Justice

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School of Law, University of Reading, UK

Paul Almond

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PAUL ALMOND is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Reading, UK. He completed his PhD at the University of Birmingham focusing on the enforcement of work-related fatality cases. He has subsequently published numerous journal articles about the enforcement of health and safety regulation.

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Book Title: Corporate Manslaughter and Regulatory Reform
Authors: Paul Almond
Series Title: Crime Prevention and Security Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137296276
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-27452-5Published: 17 January 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-32446-0Published: 01 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-29627-6Published: 17 January 2013
Series ISSN: 2946-3513
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3521
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 224
Topics: Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Office Management, Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law

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