The Open University

Professional biography

I joined the Department of Social Policy and Criminology at The Open University in January 2013, and was Head of Department from August 2015 until July 2018.

Before joining The Open University in January 2013 I worked at Liverpool John Moores University where, since 1998, I was Professor of Sociology. There, over 21 years, I taught across Schools of Business, Law, and Social Sciences.

I have long-standing interests in the incidence, nature and regulation of corporate and state crime and harm, and have published widely on these matters.

I work with the Hazards Movement and the Institute of Employment Rights I am Deputy Chair of the Board and a Trustee of INQUEST. I was a founding Member and Chair (1999-2009) of the Centre for Corporate Accountability. The CCA was an independent, not-for-profit advice, research and advocacy organisation.

Research interests

My research interests span a number of related areas.

One is a focus on the enforcement of environmental, food, and occupational health and safety law; my research has quantitative and qualitative dimensions and focusses in particular on the period from 2004 when the 'Better Regulation' initiative was rolled out in the UK. This in turn relates to a wider research project, focusing upon both the idea as well as the practices of regulation 'after the crisis', this entailing critical examinations of the relationships between local and national states on the one hand and the production of corporate harm on the other, as well as a critical engagement with academic attempts to understand these relationships. This is the subject of a book, Social Protection After the Crisis: regulation without enforcement, 2016, Bristol: Policy Press. Some of the core themes of the book were also explored in a short Briefing, ‘Better Regulation’: better for whom?

This work has also generated conceptual considerations regarding the utility and validity of the relatively recent concept of 'state-corporate crime'. In this context I have sought to develop an argument around the increasing salience of a state-corporate symbiosis for the production of crime and harm. In 2018, I co-edited, with Steven Bittle, Laureen Snider and David Whyte Revisiting Crimes of the Powerful. Marxism. crime and deviance.

Further, I continue to work on the impacts and potential of a 'social harm' perspective, as part of an ongoing, critical engagement with the limitations of the dominant concerns of more mainstream criminology; and part of this is an emergent critique of the (lack of impact) of recent and current crises upon criminology and socio-legal studies.

Finally, I have long worked, and continue to work, with David Whyte on various (academic, policy-oriented and campaigning) critical engagements with national health and safety and environmental regulation, in terms of both policy and practice, and on corporate crime more generally. Our most recent book was The Corporate Criminal. Why corporations must be abolished, published in 2015 and re-published in a Spanish translation in 2016.

PhD Supervision

I am currently supervising and have recently supervised PhD students in the areas of corporate killing, corporate crime, regulation, policing and restorative justice.

I have also examined numerous PhDs, including those awarded at the Universities of Birmingham, Edge Hill, Lancaster, Macquarie (Sydney), Middlesex, New South Wales, Northumbria, Paisley, Queens (Kingston, Ontario), Southampton, Sydney, the University of Wales and the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Books and Pamphlets

Canning, V., Martin, G. and Tombs, S., eds. (2023) The Emerald Handbook of Activist Criminology, Bingley: Emerald (in press, due August).

Member of twelve-person project team which prepared Work and Health: 50 years of regulatory failure, (2022) London: Institute of Employment Rights, 978-1-906703-56-1, 140 pages.

Canning, V. and Tombs, S. (2021) From Social Harm to Zemiology: A Critical Introduction, London: Routledge. (in press)

Copson, L., Dimou, E. and Tombs, S., eds. (2020) Crime, Harm and the State. Book 1, Milton Keynes: Open University Press.

Copson, L., Dimou, E. and Tombs, S., eds. (2020) Crime, Harm and the State. Book 2, Milton Keynes: Open University Press.

Pearce, F. and Tombs, S. (2019) Toxic Capitalism: corporate crime and the chemical industry, London: Routledge.

Bittle, S., Snider, L., Tombs, S. and Whyte, D., eds. (2018) Revisiting Crimes of the Powerful. Marxism, crime and deviance, London: Routledge, 978-0-415-79142-7, xlix+341 pages.

Tombs, S. and Whyte, D. (2016) La Empresa Criminal. Por qué las corporaciones deben ser abolidas, Icaria Editorial. (Spanish translation of Tombs and Whyte, 2015, The Corporate Criminal, below).

Tombs, S. (2016) Social Protection After the Crisis: regulation without enforcement, Bristol: Policy Press, Viii+268 pages.

Tombs, S. (2016) 'Better Regulation': better for whom?, London: Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, 978-1-906003-50-0, 16 pages.

Tombs, S. and Whyte, D. (2015) The Corporation as Criminal. Why corporations must be abolished, London: Routledge, 978-0-415-55637, viii+208 pages.

Pearce, F. and Tombs, S. (2012) Bhopal. Flowers at the altar of profit and power, North Somercotes: CrimeTalk Books, 978-0-9570241-6-8.

Tombs, S. and Whyte, D. (2010) Regulatory Surrender: death, injury and the non-enforcement of law, London: Institute of Employment Rights, 978 1 906703 10 3, iv+101 pages.

Coleman, R., Sim, J., Tombs, S. and Whyte, D., eds. (2009) State, Power, Crime, London: Sage, 9781412948050, xviii+278 pages.

Tombs, S. and Whyte, D. (2008) A Crisis of Enforcement: the decriminalisation of death and injury at work, London: Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, ISSN 1746-6946, 12 pages.

Dorling, D., Gordon, D., Hillyard, P., Pantazis, C., Pemberton, S. and Tombs, S. (2008) Criminal Obsessions. Why harm matters more than crime. Second Edition, London: Crime and Society Foundation, 978-1-906003-14-2, 97 pages.

Tombs, S. and Whyte, D. (2007) Safety Crimes, Cullompton: Willan, 978-1-84392-085-4, xviii + 253 pages.

Hillyard, P., Pantazis, C., Tombs, S., Gordon, D. and Dorling, D. (2005) Criminal Obsessions. Why harm matters more than crime, London: Crime and Society Foundation, 0-9548903-1-0, 72 pages.

Hillyard, P., Pantazis, C., Tombs, S. and Gordon, D., eds. (2004) Beyond Criminology? Taking Harm Seriously, London: Pluto Press, 0745319033, x + 319 pages.

Tombs, S. and Whyte, D., eds. (2003) Unmasking the Crimes of the Powerful: scrutinising states and corporations, New York/London: Peter Lang, 0-8204-56918, xvi + 318 pages.

Coles, E., Smith, D. and Tombs, S., eds. (2000) Risk, Management and Society, Kluwer-Nijhoff, 0-7923-6899-1, xv + 300 pages.

Slapper, G. and Tombs, S. (1999) Corporate Crime, London: Addison Wesley Longman, 0-582-29980-2, xi + 279 pages.

Member of Health and Safety project team which prepared Regulating Health and Safety at Work: the way forward, 1999, London: Institute of Employment Rights, 1 873271 72 7, xx + 152 pages.

Pearce, F. and Tombs, S. (1998) Toxic Capitalism: corporate crime and the chemical industry, Aldershot: Ashgate, 1 85521 950 6, xii + 372 pages.

Gallagher, K., Rose, E., Reynolds, J., McClelland, R. and Tombs, S. (1996) People in Organisations. An Active Learning Approach, Oxford: Blackwell, 0-631-20181-5, xxiv + 659 pages.

Articles in Refereed Journals (since 2010)

Tombs, S. and Sim, J. (2023) “Deaths and COVID-19: Talk, Silence and Alternative Realities”, Law & Policy (in press).

Tombs, S. (2023) “Regulating Exposure: Routine Deaths, Work and the Covid Crisis”, Mortality. Special Issue: Promoting the interdisciplinary study of death and dying, 10.1080/13576275.2023.2169114

Tombs, S., “Regulating Exposure: Routine Deaths, Work and the Covid Crisis”, Mortality. Special Issue: Promoting the interdisciplinary study of death and dying, 10.1080/13576275.2023.2169114

Sim, J. and Tombs, S. (2022) “Narrating the Coronavirus Crisis: State Talk and State Silence in the UK”, Justice, Power and Resistance, 5, (1-2), 67-90.

Moretta, A., Tombs, S. and Whyte, D. (2022) “The Escalating Crisis of Health and Safety Law Enforcement in Great Britain: what does Brexit mean?”, International Journal of Environmental and Public Health, 19(5), https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19053134

Canning, V., Raymen, T. and Tombs, S. (2021) “Zemiology and the Future: An Interview with Victoria Canning and Steve Tombs”, Journal of Contemporary Crime, Harm, and Ethics, 1(1), 116-126.

Tombs, S. (2021) Reframing Regulation: ‘privatisation’, de-democratisation and the end of social protection?, Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique / French Journal of British Studies, XXVI-2, 1-20.

Tombs, S. (2020) “Home as a Site of State-Corporate Violence: Grenfell Tower, aetiologies and aftermaths”, Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, 59(2), 120-142.

Tombs, S. and Whyte, D. (2019) “The Shifting Imaginaries of Corporate Crime”, Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime, 1 (1), 16-23.

Hebert, J., Bittle, S. and Tombs, S. (2019) “Obscuring Corporate Violence: corporate manslaughter in action”, The Howard Journal, 58, (4), December, 554-579.

Tombs, S. (2019) “Grenfell: the unfolding dimensions of social harm”, Justice, Power and Resistance, 3 (1), 61-88.

Tombs, S. (2018) The UK’s Corporate Killing Law: Un/fit for purpose? Criminology & Criminal Justice, 18 (4), September, 488-507.

Hillyard, P. and Tombs, S. (2018) Para além da criminologia?, Revista Brasileira de Ciências Criminais, [Brazilian Journal of Criminal Sciences] 142. (26), 273-299.

Tombs, S. (2016) Making Better Regulation, making regulation better?, Policy Studies, 37, (4), 332-349.

Tombs, S. (2015) Crisis, What Crisis? Regulation and the academic orthodoxy, Special Issue of The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 54, (1), February, 57-72.

Tombs, S. and Whyte. D. (2015) Introduction. Crimes of the Powerful, Special Issue of The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 54, (1), February, 1-7.

Tombs, S. and Whyte., D. (2015) Counterblast: Crime, Harm and the State-Corporate Nexus, Special Issue of The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 54, (1), February, 91-95.

Tombs, S. and Whyte, D. (2014) Toxic Capital Everywhere: mapping the co-ordinates of regulatory tolerance, Special Issue of Social Justice. Bhopal and after: The chemical industry as Toxic Capitalism, 41(1/2), December, 28-48.

Tombs, S. (2013) Still Killing with Impunity: the reform of corporate criminal liability in the UK, Policy and Practice in Health and Safety, 11, (2), 63-81.

Tombs, S. (2013) Working for the ‘Free’ Market: state complicity in routine corporate harm in the UK, Special Issue of Revista Crítica Penal y Poder [Critical Review of Criminal Critique and Power]. Redefining the Criminal Matter: State Crimes, Mass Atrocities and Social Harm, 5, September, 291-313.

Tombs, S. and Whyte, D. (2013) The Myths and Realities of Deterrence in Workplace Safety Regulation, British Journal of Criminology, 53(5), 746-763.

Tombs, S. and Hillyard, P. (2013) ¿Más allá de la criminología? [Beyond Criminology?], Revista Crítica Penal y Poder [Critical Review of Criminal Critique and Power], 4, March, 175-196.

James, P., Tombs, S. and Whyte, D. (2013) An Independent Review of British Health and Safety Regulation? From common-sense to non-sense, Policy Studies 34, (1), 36-52.

Tombs, S. and Whyte, D. (2013) Transcending the Deregulation Debate? Regulation, risk and the enforcement of health and safety law in the UK, Regulation & Governance, 7(1), March, 61-79.

Tombs, S. (2012) State-Corporate Symbiosis in the Production of Crime and Harm, State Crime, 1(2), October, 170-195.

Pemberton, S., Tombs, S., Chan, M. and Seal, L. (2012) Whistleblowing, Organisational Harm and the Self-Regulating Organisation, Policy & Politics, 40, (2) April, 263-279.

Snell, K. and Tombs, S. (2011) 'How Do You Get Your Voice Heard When No-One Will Let You?' Victimisation at work, Criminology & Criminal Justice, 11, (3), 207–223.

Tombs, S. andWhyte, D. (2010) A Deadly Consensus: worker safety and regulatory degradation under New Labour, British Journal of Criminology, 50, (1), 46-65.

Teaching interests

I have worked at The Open University in production and/or presentation on the followong modules: DD311, Crime, Harm and the State; DD105, Introduction to Criminology; DD212, Understanding Criminology; DD804, Crime and Global Justice; DD312, Social Policy: Poverty, Wealth and Inequality; DD208, Welfare, Crime and Society; DD301, Crime and Justice; and DD305, Personal Lives and Social Policy.

My teaching at LJMU spanned Corporate Crime, Crime and Political Economy, Critical Criminology, Criminological Theory, Epistemology and the Politics of Criminological Knowledge, and State Crime.

Publications

Journal articles

International Expert Statement on Israeli State Crime (2024-02-16)
State Crime Journal, and Tombs, Steve
State Crime Journal, 12(2)

[Book Review] Assessing the Harms of Crime: A New Framework for Criminal Policy. By Victoria A. Greenfield and Letizia Paoli, Oxford University Press, 2022. (2023-11)
Tombs, Steve
The British Journal of Criminology, 63(6) (pp. 1616-1618)

Deaths and COVID-19: Talk, silence and alternative realities (2023-08-22)
Sim, Joe and Tombs, Steve
Law & Policy, 45(3) (pp. 373-391)

Regulating Exposure: Routine Deaths, Work and the Covid Crisis (2023)
Tombs, Steve
Mortality: Promoting the interdisciplinary study of death and dying, 28(2) (pp. 207-219)

Narrating the coronavirus crisis: state talk and state silence in the UK (2022-05-31)
Sim, Joe and Tombs, Steve
Justice, Power and Resistance, 5(1-2) (pp. 67-90)

The Escalating Crisis of Health and Safety Law Enforcement in Great Britain: What Does Brexit Mean? (2022-03)
Moretta, Andrew; Tombs, Steve and Whyte, David
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19, Article e3134(5)

Zemiology and the Future: An Interview with Victoria Canning and Steve Tombs (2021-10-03)
Canning, Victoria and Tombs, Steve
Journal of Contemporary Crime, Harm, and Ethics, 1(1) (pp. 116-126)

Reframing Regulation: ‘privatisation’, de-democratisation and the end of social protection? (2021)
Tombs, Steve
Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, XXVI(2)

Home as a Site of State-Corporate Violence: Grenfell Tower, Aetiologies and Aftermaths (2020-06)
Tombs, Steve
Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, 59(2) (pp. 120-142)

The Shifting Imaginaries of Corporate Crime (2020-01-01)
Tombs, Steve and Whyte, David
Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime, 1(1) (pp. 16-23)

Obscuring Corporate Violence: corporate manslaughter in action (2019-12)
Hebert, Jasmine; Bittle, Steve and Tombs, Steve
Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 58(4) (pp. 554-579)

Grenfell: the unfolding dimensions of social harm (2019)
Tombs, Steve
Justice, Power and Resistance, 3(1) (pp. 61-88)

[Book Review] Uncovering the Crimes of Urbanisation: Researching Corruption, Violence and Urban Conflict by K. Lasslett, Routledge, 2018 (2019)
Tombs, Steve
State Crime Journal, 8(1) (pp. 144-147)

The UK's corporate killing law: Un/fit for purpose? (2018-09-01)
Tombs, Steve
Criminology and Criminal Justice, 18(4) (pp. 488-507)

What to do with the Harmful Corporation? (2016-09-03)
Tombs, Steve
Justice, Power and Resistance, 1 (pp. 193-216)

Making better regulation, making regulation better? (2016)
Tombs, Steve
Policy Studies, 37(4) (pp. 332-349)

Introduction to the special issue on 'Crimes of the Powerful' (2015-02)
Tombs, Steve and Whyte, David
The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 54(1) (pp. 1-7)

Crisis, what crisis? Regulation and the academic orthodoxy (2015-02)
Tombs, Steve
Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 54(1) (pp. 57-72)

Counterblast: crime, harm and the state-corporate nexus (2015-02)
Tombs, Steve and Whyte, David
Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 54(1) (pp. 91-95)

Toxic capital everywhere: mapping the co-ordinates of regulatory tolerance (2014-12)
Tombs, Steve and Whyte, David
Social Justice, 41(1/2) (pp. 80-100)

Still killing with impunity: corporate criminal law reform in the UK (2013-12)
Tombs, Steve
Policy and Practice in Health and Safety, 11(2) (pp. 63-80)

Corporate theft and fraud: business as usual (2013-12)
Tombs, Steve
Criminal Justice Matters(94) (pp. 14-15)

An independent review of British health and safety regulation? From common sense to non-sense (2013-11-12)
James, Phil; Tombs, Steve and Whyte, David
Policy Studies, 34(1) (pp. 36-52)

The myths and realities of deterrence in workplace safety regulation (2013-09)
Tombs, Steve and Whyte, David
British Journal of Criminology, 53(5) (pp. 746-763)

Working for the ‘Free’ Market: state complicity in routine corporate harm in the United Kingdom (2013-09)
Tombs, Steve
Revista Crítica Penal y Poder(5) (pp. 291-313)

Transcending the deregulation debate? regulation, risk, and the enforcement of health and safety law in the UK (2013-03-29)
Tombs, Steve and Whyte, David
Regulation & Governance, 7(1) (pp. 61-79)

Symbiosis in the production of crime and harm (2012)
Tombs, Steve
State Crime, 1, Article 1(2) (pp. 170-195)

Whistleblowing, organisational harm and the self-regulating organisation (2012)
Pembertion, Simon; Tombs, Steve; Chan, Ming Ming Joiy and Seal, Lizzie
Policy and Politics, 40(2) (pp. 263-279)

‘How do you get your voice heard when no-one will let you?’ Victimisation at work (2011-07)
Snell, Katy and Tombs, Steve
Criminology and Criminal Justice, 11, Article 1(3) (pp. 207-223)

Corporate or Criminal? The dangers of reducing corporate prosecutions (2011-03-10)
Tombs, Steve and Whyte, David
New Law Journal, 161, Article 161 NLJ 81(7449) (pp. 81-84)

Section 30 dispersal powers: emerging findings from Merseyside (2010-02)
Evans, Rachel; Jamieson, Janet; O'Brien, Dave; Tombs, Steve and Yates, Joe
Early Career Academics Network Bulletin(2) (pp. 4-8)

Reflections upon the limits of a concept: ‘victims’ and corporate crime (2010-01-21)
Tombs, S. and Whyte, D.
Journal International de Victimologie, Numéro spécial sur les victimes de crimes en col blanc (crimes économiques), 23(2)

A deadly consensus: worker safety and regulatory degradation under New Labour (2010-01)
Tombs, Steve and Whyte, David
British Journal of Criminology, 50, Article 3(1) (pp. 46-65)

Brown-nosing the rich (2010)
Tombs, Steve and Whyte, David
Criminal Justice Matters, 79(1) (pp. 32-33)

A political economy of corporate killing (2007)
Tombs, Steve
Criminal Justice Matters, 70(1) (pp. 29-30)

Authored books

From Social Harm to Zemiology: A Critical Introduction (2021-03-31)
Canning, Victoria and Tombs, Steve
New Directions in Critical Criminology
ISBN : 9781138366091 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : London

Toxic Capitalism: corporate crime and the chemical industry (2019-04-15)
Pearce, Frank and Tombs, Steve
ISBN : 9780429026416 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : London

La Empresa Criminal: Por qué las corporaciones deben ser abolidas (2016-06)
Tombs, Steve and Whyte, David
ISBN : 978-84-9888-719-8 | Publisher : Icaria | Published : Barcelona

Social Protection After the Crisis: regulation without enforcement (2015-11-16)
Tombs, Steve
ISBN : 9781447313755 | Publisher : Policy Press | Published : Bristol

The Corporate Criminal. Why Corporations Must Be Abolished (2015-04-02)
Tombs, Steve and Whyte, David
Key Ideas in Criminology
ISBN : 978-0-415-55637-8 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : Abingdon

Bhopal: Flowers at the Altar of Profit and Power (2012)
Pearce, Frank and Tombs, Steve
ISBN : 978-0-957024168 | Publisher : CrimeTalk Books | Published : North Somercotes

Regulatory Surrender: Death, Injury and the Non-Enforcement of Law (2010)
Tombs, Steve and Whyte, David
ISBN : 9781906703103 | Publisher : Institute of Employment Rights | Published : London

Criminal Obsessions: Why Harm Matters More Than Crime (2nd ed.) (2008)
Dorling, Danny; Gordon, Dave; Hillyard, Paddy; Pantazis, Christina; Pemberton, Simon and Tombs, Steve
Harm and Society
ISBN : 978-1-906003-14-2 | Publisher : Centre for Crime and Justice Studies | Published : London

Corporate crime (1999)
Slapper, Gary and Tombs, Steve
ISBN : 978-0582299801 | Publisher : Longman | Published : Harlow

Book chapters

Corporate Crime, Regulation and the State (2023-12-30)
Tombs, S.
In: Scott, D.G. and Sim, J. eds. Demystifying Power, Crime and Social Harm: The Work and Legacy of Steven Box. Critical Criminological Perspectives (pp. 57-79)
ISBN : 978-3-031-46212-2 | Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan | Published : Cham, Switzerland

Why ‘Activist Criminology’, Why Now? (2023-08-09)
Canning, Victoria; Martin, Greg and Tombs, Steve
In: Canning, Victoria; Martin, Greg and Tombs, Steve eds. The Emerald International Handbook of Activist Criminology (pp. 3-17)
ISBN : 978-1-80262-200-3 | Publisher : Emerald Publishing Limited | Published : Bingley, UK

Consumption, crime and harm at home. Regulating for what and whom? (2023)
Tombs, Steve
In: Davies, Pamela and Rowe, Michael eds. Criminology of the Domestic. Routledge Studies in Crime, Justice and the Family (pp. 50-68)
ISBN : 9781003250418 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : Abingdon, Oxon

Social Justice and the Limits of Regulation; the Enduring Insights of Marx's Capital (2021)
Tombs, Steve
In: Gordon, Faith and Newman, Daniel eds. Leading Works in Law and Social Justice (pp. 110-122)
ISBN : 978-100036730-0 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : London

Making Local Regulation Better? Marketisation, Privatisation and the Erosion of Social Protection (2020-07-03)
Tombs, Steve
In: Albertson, Kevin; Corcoran, Mary and Phillips, Jake eds. Marketisation and Privatisation in Criminal Justice (pp. 293-308)
ISBN : 978-1447345817 | Publisher : Policy Press | Published : Bristol

Struggles Inside and Outside the University (2020)
Tombs, Steve and Whyte, David
In: Hart, E. L.; Greener, J. and Moth, R. eds. Resisting the Punitive State (pp. 46-67)
ISBN : 9780745339528 | Publisher : Pluto Press | Published : London

Corporate killing personified: twisting the corporate hand to fit inside the criminal glove (2019-03)
Bittle, Steve; Tombs, Steve and Whyte, David
In: Tucker, Eric and Fudge, Judy eds. The Class Politics of Law: Essays Inspired by Harry Glasbeek (pp. 114-134)
ISBN : 9781773631004 | Publisher : Fernwood Publishing | Published : Halifax

Framing the Crisis: Private Capital to the Rescue (2018)
Tombs, Steve
In: Barton, Alana and Davies, Howard eds. Ignorance, Power and Harm: Agnotology and The Criminological Imagination (pp. 87-111)
ISBN : 978-3-319-97342-5 | Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan | Published : London

For Pragmatism and Politics: Crime, Social Harm and Zemiology (2018)
Tombs, Steve
In: Boukli, Avi (Paraskevi) and Kotzé, Justin eds. Zemiology: Reconnecting Crime and Social Harm (pp. 11-31)
ISBN : 978-3-319-76311-8 | Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan

Corporate Manslaughter (2016-06-29)
Tombs, Steve
In: Cotreen, Karen; Morley, Sharon; Taylor, Paul and Turner, Joanne eds. A Companion to Crime, Harm and Victimisation. Companions in Criminology and Criminal Justice (pp. 28-29)
ISBN : 978-1447325727 | Publisher : Policy Press | Published : Bristol

Financial Harm and Victimisation (2016-06-29)
Tombs, Steve
In: Corteen, Karen; Morley, Sharon; Taylor, Paul and Turner, Joanne eds. A Companion to Crime, Harm and Victimisation. Companions in Criminology and Criminal Justice (pp. 80-81)
ISBN : 978-1447325727 | Publisher : Policy Press | Published : Bristol

Social Harm (2016-06-29)
Tombs, Steve
In: Corteen, Karen; Morley, Sharon; Taylor, Paul and Turner, Joanne eds. A Companion to Crime, Harm and Victimisation. Companions in Criminology and Criminal Justice (pp. 218-219)
ISBN : 978-1447325727 | Publisher : Policy Press | Published : Bristol

State-Corporate Crime and Harm (2016-06-29)
Tombs, Steve
In: Corteen, Karen; Morley, Sharon; Taylor, Paul and Turner, Joanne eds. A Companion to Crime, Harm and Victimisation. Companions in Criminology and Criminal Justice (pp. 224-225)
ISBN : 978-1447325727 | Publisher : Policy Press | Published : Bristol

'After' the Crisis: morality plays and the renewal of business as usual (2016-06-02)
Tombs, Steve
In: Whyte, David and Wiegratz, Jorg eds. Neoliberalism and the Moral Economy of Fraud (pp. 31-43)
ISBN : 978-1-138-93037-7 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : London

Health and safety ‘crimes’ in Britain: the great disappearing act (2014)
Tombs, Steve
In: Davies, Pamela; Francis, Peter and Wyatt, Tanya eds. Invisible Crimes and Social Harms (pp. 198-220)
ISBN : 978-1-137-34781-7 | Publisher : Palgrave | Published : London

Corporate crime (2013-06-13)
Tombs, Steve
In: Hale, Chris; Hayward, Keith; Wahidin, Azrini and Wincup, Emma eds. Criminology (3rd ed.) (pp. 227-246)
ISBN : 978–0–19–969129–6 | Publisher : Oxford University Press. | Published : Oxford

Reappraising regulation: the politics of “regulatory retreat” in the United Kingdom (2013)
Tombs, Steve and Whyte, David
In: Will, Susan; Handelman, Stephen and Brotherton, David C. eds. How They Got Away with It: White Collar Criminals and the Financial Meltdown (pp. 205-222)
ISBN : 978-0-231-15690-5 | Publisher : Columbia University Press | Published : New York and Chichester

After the crisis: new directions in theorising corporate and white-collar crime (2012)
Burdis, Kate and Tombs, Steve
In: Hall, Steve and Winlow, Simon eds. New Directions in Criminological Theory (pp. 276-291)
ISBN : 978-1-84392-913-0 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : Abingdon and New York

Reshaping health and safety enforcement: institutionalising impunity (2012)
Tombs, Steve and Whyte, David
In: Dickens, Linda ed. Making Employment Rights Effective: Issues of Enforcement and Compliance (pp. 67-86)
ISBN : 9781849462563 | Publisher : Hart | Published : Oxford

From 'crime' to social harm? (2011-10)
Hillyard, Paddy and Tombs, Steve
In: Lynch, Michael J. and Stretesky, Paul B. eds. Radical and Marxist Theories of Crime. The Library of Essays in Theoretical Criminology (pp. 13-29)
ISBN : 978-1-4094-2309-6 | Publisher : Ashgate | Published : Aldershot

State complicity in the production of corporate crime (2011-06-08)
Tombs, Steve
In: Gobert, James and Pascal, Ana-Maria eds. European Developments in Corporate Criminal Liability. Routledge Advances in Criminology (pp. 70-83)
ISBN : 978-0-415-62066-6 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : Abingdon

Corporate violence and harm (2010)
Tombs, Steve
In: Brookman, Fiona; Maguire, Mike; Pierpoint, Harriet and Bennett, Trevor eds. Handbook on Crime (pp. 884-903)
ISBN : 978-1-84392-372-5 | Publisher : Willan Publishing | Published : Cullompton

Corporate crime (2009)
Tombs, Steve
In: Hale, Chris; Hayward, Keith; Wahidin, Azrini and Wincup, Emma eds. Criminology (2nd ed.) (pp. 301-322)
ISBN : 978-0-19-922729-7 | Publisher : Oxford University Press | Published : Oxford

Crime, harm and corporate power (2009)
Tombs, Steve and Whyte, David
In: Muncie, John; Talbot, Deborah and Walters, Reece eds. Crime: Local and Global (pp. 137-172)
ISBN : 978-1-84392-515-6 | Publisher : Willan Publishing | Published : Cullompton

Introduction: state, power, crime (2009)
Coleman, Roy; Sim, Joe; Tombs, Steve and Whyte, David
In: Coleman, Roy; Sim, Joe; Tombs, Steve and Whyte, David eds. State, Power, Crime (pp. 1-19)
ISBN : 9781412948043 | Publisher : SAGE Publications Ltd. | Published : London

The state and corporate crime (2009)
Tombs, Steve and Whyte, David
In: Coleman, Roy; Sim, Joe; Tombs, Steve and Whyte, David eds. State, Power, Crime (pp. 103-115)
ISBN : 9781412948043 | Publisher : SAGE Publications | Published : London

Official statistics and hidden crimes: researching health and safety crimes (2009)
Tombs, Steve
In: Croall, Hazel ed. Corporate Crime, Vol. 1. Issues of Definition, Construction and Research. SAGE Library of Criminology (pp. 281-296)
ISBN : 9781847874016 | Publisher : SAGE Publications Ltd. | Published : London

US capital versus the Third World: Union Carbide and Bhopal (2009)
Pearce, Frank and Tombs, Steve
In: Croall, Hazel ed. Corporate Crime, Vol. 2. Corporate Crime: Cases and Explanations. SAGE Library of Criminology
ISBN : 9781847874016 | Publisher : SAGE Publications Ltd. | Published : London

Hazards, law and class: contextualizing the regulation of corporate crime (2009)
Pearce, Frank and Tombs, Steve
In: Croall, Hazel ed. Corporate Crime, Vol. 3. Controlling Corporate Crime. SAGE Library of Criminology
ISBN : 1847874010 | Publisher : SAGE Publications Ltd | Published : London

Ideology, hegemony and empiricism (2009)
Pearce, Frank and Tombs, Steve
In: Whyte, David ed. Crimes of the Powerful: a Reader. Readings in Criminology and Criminal Justice (pp. 157-159)
ISBN : 9780335221981 | Publisher : Open University Press | Published : Maidenhead

Toxic capitalism: corporate crime and the chemical industry (2009)
Pearce, Frank and Tombs, Steve
In: Whyte, David ed. Crimes of the Powerful. A Reader (pp. 93-98)
ISBN : 9780335221981 | Publisher : Open University Press | Published : Maidenhead

State talk, state silence: work and ‘violence’ in the UK (2008)
Sim, Joe and Tombs, Steve
In: Panitch, Leo and Leys, Colin eds. Violence Today: Actually Existing Barbarism. Socialist Register 2009 (pp. 88-104)
ISBN : 978-0-85036-607-5 | Publisher : The Merlin Press | Published : London

Corporations and health and safety (2008)
Tombs, Steve
In: Minkes, John and Minkes, Leonard eds. Corporate and White-Collar Crime (pp. 18-38)
ISBN : 9781412934572 | Publisher : SAGE Publications Ltd. | Published : London

Corporate crime and its victims (2008)
Tombs, Steve and Williams, Brian
In: Stout, Brian; Yates, Joe and Williams, Brian eds. Applied Criminology (pp. 170-185)
ISBN : 978-1-4129-4732-9 | Publisher : SAGE Publications Ltd. | Published : London

Edited books

The Emerald International Handbook of Activist Criminology (2023-08-09)
Canning, Victoria; Martin, Greg and Tombs, Steve
Canning, Victoria; Martin, Greg and Tombs, Steve eds.
ISBN : 978-1-80262-200-3 | Publisher : Emerald Publishing Limited | Published : Bingley, UK

Revisiting Crimes of the Powerful: Marxism, Crime and Deviance (2018)
Bittle, Steve; Snider, Laureen; Tombs, Steve and Whyte, David eds.
ISBN : 9780415791427; 9780367482954 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : London

State, Power, Crime (2009)
Coleman, Roy; Sim, Joe; Tombs, Steve and Whyte, David eds.
ISBN : 9781412948050 | Publisher : SAGE Publications Ltd. | Published : London

Conference items

Regulating Business ‘After’ the Crisis: some observations from the UK (2016-09)
Tombs, Steve
In : NSfK’s 58. Research Seminar (1. - 4. May 2016, Bifröst, Iceland) (pp. 19-37)

Other

‘Better Regulation’: better for whom? (2016-04)
Tombs, Steve
Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, London.

Triennial Review of the Health and Safety Executive. Submission to the Department for Work and Pensions (2013-07)
Tombs, Steve and Whyte, David
Institute of Employment Rights, Liverpool.

The Löfstedt Review of Health and Safety: a Critical Evaluation (2012)
James, Phil; Tombs, Steve and Whyte, David
IER

Injustice upon Injustice: London 2012 and the Enduring Legacies of Bhopal (2011-12-02)
Pearce, Frank and Tombs, Steve
CrimeTalk

Flowers at the Altar of Profit and Power: the continuing disaster at Bhopal (2011)
Pearce, Frank and Tombs, Steve
CrimeTalk

Health and safety gone mad? (2010-07)
Tombs, Steve and Whyte, David
Institute of Employment Rights, Liverpool.

A crisis of enforcement: the decriminalisation of death and injury at work (2008-06)
Tombs, Steve and Whyte, David
Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, King's College London, London.

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