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

Michalowski, Raymond J.; Brown, Meredith M.

doi:10.1177/2631309x20919694

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“…A further task, then, for narrative green victimology, is to uncover the absent narratives and to connect them with those present, with a view towards building a storyscape of evidence pertaining to a particular harm that will be difficult for authorities to ignore. Kramer’s (2020) argument that delayed action can be conceived of as predatory is pertinent here, as is the newly coined area of ‘public health criminology’ (Michalowski and Brown, 2020). Whether stories of lived experience constitute ‘truth’ remains contentious, however.…”

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Storied experiences of the Havelock North drinking water crisis: A case for a ‘narrative green victimology’

Froideville

2021

International Review of Victimology

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The number of victims from environmental harm far exceeds that from everyday property and interpersonal crime, yet little is known about the experience of environmental victimisation. This paper makes a case for a narrative green victimology to advance scholarship about environmental victims, drawing on data from interviews with persons affected by a waterborne outbreak of campylobacter in the small town of Havelock North, New Zealand, in August 2016. Findings demonstrate that understandings of environmental harm are developed in narratives, with narratives. In particular, participants’ stories of harm and victimisation revealed fragments of larger, cultural narratives about sacrifice, nation-building, motherhood, and environmental purity, each of which affected their understanding of the impact of the outbreak on their autonomy as agentive persons. It is proposed that a narrative green victimology offers environmental victimology a platform upon which it can foot its frameworks.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Storied experiences of the Havelock North drinking water crisis: A case for a ‘narrative green victimology’

Froideville

2021

International Review of Victimology

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“…Even though state-corporate crimes are present around the world, the Trump Administration purposely and systematically pursued these offenses as part of an overall program aimed at “rolling back or weakening regulations designed to protect workers, consumers, the environment, and general public health from known corporate harms” (Michalowski and Brown 2020 : 113 (emphasis in the original)). Moreover, “these rollbacks constitute[d] the most far-reaching effort to free corporate capital from regulatory restraint since the onset of corporate regulation at the dawn of the twentieth century” (Michalowski and Brown 2020 : 113).…”

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Essential Crimes? Essential Punishments? Rethinking Essentiality in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Magnin

2021

Crit Crim

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The phrases, “essential businesses” and “essential jobs,” emerged at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, raising questions about and reflecting concerns over which goods, services, and workers were necessary to prevent societal collapse. In an attempt to continue to probe “essentiality,” this article coins the term “essential crimes” to refer to those socially injurious acts and omissions that are part and parcel of a global neoliberal capitalist order, and that are, therefore, vital to keep the socioeconomic system running. In other words, if keeping humans alive in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic required supermarkets and hospitals to remain open (“essential business and jobs”), maintaining the existing socioeconomic system and ensuring that the powerful remained powerful required harmful acts and omissions by states and corporations—what we refer to as “essential crimes.” This article sheds light on how the COVID-19 pandemic has helped illuminate just how essential these crimes and harms are to the perpetuation of the status quo by the powerful. In addition, this article encourages us to consider which punishments, if any, are vital to a well-ordered society, and it demands that we rethink whether prison is an “essential punishment” for ensuring public safety.

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“…For example, the regulatory reversals of Trump's neoliberal agenda facilitate crimes against public health. These reversals weaken or revoke regulations that limit threats to public health, which can encourage companies to engage in harmful practices (Michalowski & Brown, 2020), and expose the weaknesses of the opposing forces to neoliberal global capitalism (Snider, 2020).…”

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Um Ensaio sobre Crimes Corporativos na Perspectiva Pós-Colonial: Desafiando a Literatura Tradicional

Oliveira

Alcadipani

2021

Rev. adm. contemp.

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RESUMO Objetivo: este ensaio tem por objetivo desafiar, teoricamente, as noções de crimes corporativos desenvolvidas na literatura tradicional, a qual compreende esse fenômeno como uma disfunção social e organizacional, concentrando-se nos seus antecedentes e determinantes. Argumento do Ensaio: a premissa básica do ensaio é que crimes corporativos ocorrem em uma dinâmica própria das corporações, a principal força do capitalismo contemporâneo sobre o mundo. Nós recorremos ao pensamento pós-colonial, mais especificamente aos conceitos de necrocapitalismo, uma versão do capitalismo contemporâneo caracterizada pelo imperialismo, que se refere a formas contemporâneas de acumulação, as quais envolvem a subjugação da vida ao poder da morte. Resultados: crimes corporativos ocorrem de forma duradoura em contextos de inter-relacionamentos extremamente complexos, incluindo relações entre corporações e governos. Conclusões: concluímos ser necessário argumentar contra a normalização dos crimes corporativos no campo dos estudos organizacionais, ao tratá-los como uma disfunção. Os crimes corporativos são configurados em uma cadeia de agentes, incluindo o Estado, envolvendo um conjunto de violações que atentam contra nações.

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

Cited by 13 publications

References 16 publications

Storied experiences of the Havelock North drinking water crisis: A case for a ‘narrative green victimology’

Storied experiences of the Havelock North drinking water crisis: A case for a ‘narrative green victimology’

Essential Crimes? Essential Punishments? Rethinking Essentiality in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Um Ensaio sobre Crimes Corporativos na Perspectiva Pós-Colonial: Desafiando a Literatura Tradicional

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