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Criminalization and Occupational Health and Safety

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Health and safety law; Workplace safety crimes

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Work can be a dangerous place and provides the context for a multitude of deaths, injuries, and illnesses. These include those arising from major disasters, such as the chemical plant explosion at Bhopal, India, in 1984 or at Piper Alpha in the North Sea in 1988 and more recently in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. There are the fatalities reported in local newspapers: deaths from a fall at a building site, a tractor rollover, the death of a truck driver on the road, and death from asphyxiation due to a trench collapse. Fatal and chronic illnesses are also important outcomes of work: heart attacks, cancers, lung disease, and the multitude of chronic ailments that arise from exposure to chemicals and other hazards both in the course of work and as a consequence of events like Bhopal and Chernobyl. Then, there are the legacies from particular occupations that lead to chronic disability: back pain from nursing, broken knees from...

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  1. School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, Victoria, VIC, Australia

    Fiona Haines

  2. School of Law, University of Reading, Berkshire, UK

    Paul Almond

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  1. Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Gerben Bruinsma

  2. VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Gerben Bruinsma

  3. Department of Criminology, Law and Society, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

    David Weisburd

  4. Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel

    David Weisburd

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Haines, F., Almond, P. (2014). Criminalization and Occupational Health and Safety. In: Bruinsma, G., Weisburd, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5690-2_322

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