The Invisibility of Crimes of the Powerful
The enabling potential of power is further explored in this second substantive chapter. Here we outline the significance and importance of the ways in which some individuals and groups are enabled, whilst others are less able, to avoid detection, prosecut
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Pamela Davies Tanya Wyatt
Crime and Power
Pamela Davies • Tanya Wyatt
Crime and Power
Pamela Davies Department of Social Sciences Northumbria University Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Tanya Wyatt Department of Social Sciences Northumbria University Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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Acknowledgements
We would like to thank Frank Pearce for his inspirational text Crimes of the Powerful. It has been the foundation of our undergraduate module of the same name and greatly influenced our research. Thanks as well to Steve Tombs for his inspirational work in this area and to Peter Francis for his collaboration on Invisible Crimes and Social Harms, another influential text.
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Contents
1 Crime and Power: Introduction ����������������������������������������������������������� 1 2 What Is Power and Who Are the Powerful? ��������������������������������������� 19 3 The Invisibility of Crimes of the Powerful������������������������������������������� 39
Part I Individuals and Power Dynamics 4 Class, Status and Elites ������������������������������������������������������������������������� 67 5 Race and Ethnicity��������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 85 6 Religion��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 107 7 Gender������������������������������������������������������������������������
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