This volume examines the dynamics and control of organized and corporate crime in their national and international contexts. Global developments since World War II have combined to produce social, economic and political environments which have increased both the profitability and destructive impact of systematic illegal activity. The articles contained in this book challenge the simplistic assumption that crime is caused by bad individuals, acting alone or conspiring together, and that crime can be adequately dealt with by increasing conventional police activity. This assumption does not follow available empirical data.

Originally published in 1998. While there is a growing academic literature on corporate crime, much of this focuses upon variants of economic or financial crimes; there is a relative absence of studies of safety, health and/or environmental crimes. This is curious given that recent years have witnessed a resurgence in popular, academic and indeed state attention to questions related to environmental degradation and human safety. Certainly in the latter context there is some recognition that environmental degradation must be understood partly in terms of environmental crimes by corporations. Moreover, recent experience in both the US and the UK attests to the fact that there is no ineluctable trend towards safer and healthier workplaces, as deregulatory movements have resulted in increased risks for most workers and, this text argues, an increased opportunity for, and incidence of, safety crimes. At the centre of environmental, safety and health isses lie the chemicals industries. These industries are of strategic importance to national economies, while also having almost unique hazard and risk potential and it is for these reasons that these are the focus of this text. Any understanding of the nature of these types of corporate crimes, and thus any recognition of the potential for their more effective regulation, requires an analysis that is grounded in more general sociological concerns and in political economy. For this reason, this text emphasises the need for understandings of the nature of contemporary and emergent forms of corporate organisation, of their place in contemporary economies, and of the relationships between these forms and state formations.

Originally published in 1998. While there is a growing academic literature on corporate crime, much of this focuses upon variants of economic or financial crimes; there is a relative absence of studies of safety, health and/or environmental crimes. This is curious given that recent years have witnessed a resurgence in popular, academic and indeed state attention to questions related to environmental degradation and human safety. Certainly in the latter context there is some recognition that environmental degradation must be understood partly in terms of environmental crimes by corporations. Moreover, recent experience in both the US and the UK attests to the fact that there is no ineluctable trend towards safer and healthier workplaces, as deregulatory movements have resulted in increased risks for most workers and, this text argues, an increased opportunity for, and incidence of, safety crimes. At the centre of environmental, safety and health isses lie the chemicals industries. These industries are of strategic importance to national economies, while also having almost unique hazard and risk potential and it is for these reasons that these are the focus of this text. Any understanding of the nature of these types of corporate crimes, and thus any recognition of the potential for their more effective regulation, requires an analysis that is grounded in more general sociological concerns and in political economy. For this reason, this text emphasises the need for understandings of the nature of contemporary and emergent forms of corporate organisation, of their place in contemporary economies, and of the relationships between these forms and state formations.

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The Flowers of Evil is translated by F. P. Sturm and W. J. Robertson, to include Three Additional Poems and Intimate Papers discovered after the author's death with opinions of the Theater, Faith, Morals, Health, and on. This Edition Includes: The Dance Of Death - The Beacons - The Sadness Of The Moon - The Balcony - The Sick Muse - The Venal Muse - The Evil Monk - The Temptation - The Irreparable - The Former Life - Don Juan In Hades - The Living Flame - Correspondences - The Flask - Reversibility - The Eyes Of Beauty - Sonnet Of Autumn - The Remorse Of The Dead - The Ghost - To A Madonna - The Sky - Spleen - The Owls - Bien Loin D'Ici - Contemplation - The Brown Beggar Maid - The Swan - The Seven Old Men - The Little Old Women - The Madrigal Of Sorrow - Mist And Rain - Sunset - The Corpse - The Allegory - The Accursed - La Beatrice - The Soul Of Wine - The Wine Of Lovers - The Death Of Lovers - The Death Of The Poor - Gypsies Travelling - A Landscape - The Voyage Benediction - Ill Luck - Beauty - Ideal Love - Hymn To Beauty - Exotic Fragrance - Sonnet XVIII - Music - The Spiritual Dawn - The Flawed Bell. Also included: A Carcass - Weeping and Wandering - Lesbos - Rockets (written some ten years before the author's death) - My Heart Laid Bare (the days when he felt the first attacks of the illness that was to bear him off.) These final documents furnish an interesting supplement to the more formal works of the poet, and a valuable contribution to literature.

The Flowers of Evil is translated by F. P. Sturm and W. J. Robertson, to include Three Additional Poems (A Carcass - Weeping and Wandering - Lesbos). This Edition Contains: The Dance Of Death - The Beacons - The Sadness Of The Moon - The Balcony - The Sick Muse - The Venal Muse - The Evil Monk - The Temptation - The Irreparable - The Former Life - Don Juan In Hades - The Living Flame - Correspondences - The Flask - Reversibility - The Eyes Of Beauty - Sonnet Of Autumn - The Remorse Of The Dead - The Ghost - To A Madonna - The Sky - Spleen - The Owls - Bien Loin D'Ici - Contemplation - The Brown Beggar Maid - The Swan - The Seven Old Men - The Little Old Women - The Madrigal Of Sorrow - Mist And Rain - Sunset - The Corpse - The Allegory - The Accursed - La Beatrice - The Soul Of Wine - The Wine Of Lovers - The Death Of Lovers - The Death Of The Poor - Gypsies Travelling - A Landscape - The Voyage Benediction - Ill Luck - Beauty - Ideal Love - Hymn To Beauty - Exotic Fragrance - Sonnet XVIII - Music - The Spiritual Dawn - The Flawed Bell. Also included: A Carcass - Weeping and Wandering - Lesbos -