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Still Dying for a Living: Corporate Criminal Liability after the Westray Mine Disaster

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Description for Still Dying for a Living: Corporate Criminal Liability after the Westray Mine Disaster Paperback. Series: Law and Society. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JPQB; KNXB; LNAC14; LNCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 408.

In 1992, a preventable explosion at the Westray Mine in Plymouth, Nova Scotia, killed twenty-six miners. More than a decade later, the government introduced revisions to the Criminal Code of Canada aimed at strengthening corporate criminal liability. Bill C-45, dubbed the Westray bill, requires employers to ensure a safe workplace and attributes criminal liability to organizations for seriously injuring or killing workers and/or the public.

In Still Dying for a Living, Steven Bittle turns a critical eye on Canada’s corporate criminal liability law. Interweaving Foucauldian and neo-Marxist literatures with in-depth interviews and parliamentary transcripts, Bittle reveals how various legal, economic, and ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press
Condition
New
Series
Law and Society
Number of Pages
268
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774823609
SKU
V9780774823609
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About Steven Bittle
Steven Bittle is an assistant professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa.

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