The Politics and Practice of Occupational Health and Safety Law Enforcement

TY - BOOK

T1 - The Politics and Practice of Occupational Health and Safety Law Enforcement

AU - Canciani, Diego

PY - 2018/11/23

Y1 - 2018/11/23

N2 - This book analyses and compares British and Italian occupational health and safety (OHS) enforcement policies. Regulatory enforcement policies is a highly debated field of study in the academic literature and politics. The extended amount of harm and suffering caused by OHS incidents in developed countries and the limited concern that a number of academics and politicians have on this issue, and on the under-criminalisation of these crimes, exposes a fundamental controversial aspect of modern liberal values of social justice and equality. The innovative regulatory enforcement policies theorised by academics and adopted by jurisdictions since the 1970s is evidence of this fundamental issue and a transnational comparative analysis of jurisdictions with different social, political and criminal justice system values offers an important contribution to the literature and political debate. This book compares British and Italian OHS enforcement policies in a Marxist critical theoretical framework by analysing how modern socio-political values and globally accepted means of economic production embraced by developed jurisdictions are the root causes of the under-criminalisation of OHS crimes. The book analyses the British and Italian legal and political values and practices, the historical contexts in which the regulations and enforcement policies developed and compares OHS incidents trends longitudinally. It also analyses how OHS enforcement institutions are funded and politically controlled and the fundamental problem with law enforcement discretionary practices, and how these affect the fundamental modern principles of legal fairness and consistency. This book exposes the embedded inequality of developed nation-states socio-political and criminal justice systems and how global political and economic contemporary trends, together with the ever-increasing challenges of preserving liberal values, are gradually eroding the legitimacy of modern nation states and their claimed fundamental commitment to social justice and equality.

AB - This book analyses and compares British and Italian occupational health and safety (OHS) enforcement policies. Regulatory enforcement policies is a highly debated field of study in the academic literature and politics. The extended amount of harm and suffering caused by OHS incidents in developed countries and the limited concern that a number of academics and politicians have on this issue, and on the under-criminalisation of these crimes, exposes a fundamental controversial aspect of modern liberal values of social justice and equality. The innovative regulatory enforcement policies theorised by academics and adopted by jurisdictions since the 1970s is evidence of this fundamental issue and a transnational comparative analysis of jurisdictions with different social, political and criminal justice system values offers an important contribution to the literature and political debate. This book compares British and Italian OHS enforcement policies in a Marxist critical theoretical framework by analysing how modern socio-political values and globally accepted means of economic production embraced by developed jurisdictions are the root causes of the under-criminalisation of OHS crimes. The book analyses the British and Italian legal and political values and practices, the historical contexts in which the regulations and enforcement policies developed and compares OHS incidents trends longitudinally. It also analyses how OHS enforcement institutions are funded and politically controlled and the fundamental problem with law enforcement discretionary practices, and how these affect the fundamental modern principles of legal fairness and consistency. This book exposes the embedded inequality of developed nation-states socio-political and criminal justice systems and how global political and economic contemporary trends, together with the ever-increasing challenges of preserving liberal values, are gradually eroding the legitimacy of modern nation states and their claimed fundamental commitment to social justice and equality.

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-98509-1

DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-98509-1

M3 - Book

SN - 978-3-319-98508-4

T3 - Critical Criminological Perspectives

BT - The Politics and Practice of Occupational Health and Safety Law Enforcement

PB - Springer Nature

CY - Switzerland

ER -