Corporate violence

Jana Macfarlane Horn and Steve Tombs

Chapter 6 in Research Handbook on Violent Crime and Society, 2025, pp 84-98 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The underlying claim of this chapter is that the corporation is the greatest source of contemporary violence. By way of developing the concept of corporate violence, the chapter begins by presenting four varieties of such violence, providing an overview of the range of physical harms – some criminal, others legal – which are routinely produced by corporate activity, meanwhile setting out the extent, consequences and potential causation of such harms. The chapter then sets out why these forms of crime and harm constitute corporate violence. Turning then to a consideration of how the production of corporate violence may be understood, we argue that criminology has largely failed to produce viable explanatory frameworks for this phenomenon. The chapter concludes with an overview of key issues around the regulation of the corporation, including a short theoretical discussion of the key means developed to mitigate and respond to corporate violence and a recognition of the significance of state-corporate symbiosis in understanding regulation.

Keywords: Corporate crime and harm; Pharmaceuticals; Workplace; Explanatory frameworks; Regulation; State-corporate symbiosis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035317851
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