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Mitigating and Responding to Corporate Violence: Beyond Crime and Criminology

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Social Censure and Critical Criminology

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[A]s we try to understand the moral culture of our social world, the starting point has to be the social censures of crime in practice, or concrete criminalisations. Not social censure in general; not crime in general; but rather the specific social censures of crime in an epoch or period as expressed in the vernacular in their contexts in use.

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Tombs, S. (2017). Mitigating and Responding to Corporate Violence: Beyond Crime and Criminology. In: Amatrudo, A. (eds) Social Censure and Critical Criminology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95221-2_8

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