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Eyes wide shut: the police investigation of safety crimes




TekijätAlvesalo Anne, Whyte Dave

KustantajaSPRINGER

Julkaisuvuosi2007

JournalCrime, Law and Social Change

Lehden akronyymiCRIME LAW SOCIAL CH

Vuosikerta48

Numero1-2

Aloitussivu57

Lopetussivu72

Sivujen määrä16

ISSN0925-4994

eISSN1573-0751

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-007-9082-4


Tiivistelmä

This article reports the results of an empirical research project on the police investigation of harms caused by occupational safety crimes in Finland. It begins with a theoretical discussion of how those harms are excluded from mainstream criminal justice discourse by a range of obscuring mechanisms and the role that policing plays in maintaining and constituting a social order that marginalises safety crime. The paper uses an empirical study of safety crimes reported to the police in Finland. The study, located in a rare case of a jurisdiction in which safety crimes are the responsibility of mainstream policing agencies, will be used to explore the possibilities for stretching the legitimate parameters of criminal justice intervention. In order to do so, the analysis explores features of the 'structural' readiness of the state and the 'conceptual' readiness of police officers to criminalise those harms. The paper concludes on the value of those findings for understanding how safety crimes might be mainstreamed into policing systems more generally.




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