Old Wine, New Bottles: Contextualizing Trump’s Regulatory Rollback

Michalowski, Raymond J.; Brown, Meredith M.

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“…While Trump's rollback agenda follows the standard neoliberal playbook, it is simultaneously extraordinary in its (1) breadth of regulations targeted, (2) efforts to undermine the operational structure of the regulatory system, (3) replacement of scientific inquiry with neoliberal nostrums as the basis for regulatory rulemaking, and (4) active campaign to demoralize those who work in regulatory agencies (Michalowski & Brown, 2019). Should it succeed, the sweeping anti-regulatory agenda of the Trump administration will pose immediate and longterm threats to the life, health, and development of humans, particularly those who are least advantaged; other animals; and the biosphere as a whole.…”

Section: Let the Rollbacks Beginmentioning

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Poisoning for Profit: Regulatory Rollbacks, Public Health, and State-Facilitated Corporate Crime

Michalowski

Brown

2020

Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime

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A core policy goal of the Trump administration has been rolling back or weakening regulations designed to protect workers, consumers, the environment, and general public health from known corporate harms. These rollbacks constitute the most far-reaching effort to free corporate capital from regulatory restraint since the onset of corporate regulation at the dawn of the 20th century. We propose that blending state–corporate crime and public health frameworks can help us better understand and analyze the short- and long-term impacts of the current rollback regime. We also propose that the regulatory rollbacks currently underway create conditions for an increase in state-facilitated corporate crimes that will result in excess deaths, avoidable illnesses and injuries, and a degradation of public health. We provide specific examples involving deregulatory acts regarding water, air, labor, and food, concluding with a call for a public health criminology and an openly democratic, evidence based, and discrimination-free system for minimizing the harms of corporate profit-seeking.

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Section: Let the Rollbacks Beginmentioning

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Poisoning for Profit: Regulatory Rollbacks, Public Health, and State-Facilitated Corporate Crime

Michalowski

Brown

2020

Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime

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Toward a Human Rights Criminology of Public Health

Michalowski,

Annorbah

2024

A Research Agenda for a Human Rights Centred Criminology

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Regulatory Rollback and White-Collar Crime in the Era of Trump: The Challenges of Perspective

Friedrichs

Rothe

2020

Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime

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Our objective is to provide a conceptual and comparative framework for criminological engagement with the issues raised by the regulatory rollback scheme promoted by the Trump administration. We begin with invoking the notion of an “imaginary social order,” followed with identifying some core rationales for regulation, the complexities and contradictions, and the areas where the Trump administration favors more, not less regulation. The purpose and actual history of regulation in the United States is addressed as current regulatory rollback initiatives should be analyzed in relation to this history. In addition, regulatory issues ought to be understood in terms of their role in an increasingly complex and constantly evolving capitalist economy.

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Old Wine, New Bottles: Contextualizing Trump’s Regulatory Rollback

Cited by 5 publications

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Poisoning for Profit: Regulatory Rollbacks, Public Health, and State-Facilitated Corporate Crime

Poisoning for Profit: Regulatory Rollbacks, Public Health, and State-Facilitated Corporate Crime

Toward a Human Rights Criminology of Public Health

Regulatory Rollback and White-Collar Crime in the Era of Trump: The Challenges of Perspective

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