Rich crime, poor crime : inequality and the rule of law

In 21st century Britain the rich are protected while the poor punished. Rich Crime, Poor Crime shows how contemporary British society is founded on a legacy of past plunder and dispossession by elites against the rest. Over centuries, power and property have been consolidated in the hands of a few a...

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Main Author: Webster, Colin, (Author)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023.
Subjects:
Crime > Economic aspects.
Crime > Sociological aspects.
Criminology.
Social stratification.
Social Science > Criminology.
Crime & criminology.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
ISBN: 9781839098246
Physical Description: 1 online resource (332 pages)

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245 1 0 |a Rich crime, poor crime :  |b inequality and the rule of law /  |c Colin Webster (Leeds Beckett University, UK). 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction: Crime, inequality and the rule of law -- Part I. Taking the long view -- Chapter 1. Capitalism and crime in early modern England -- Chapter 2. Accumulation by dispossession: Land grabs, enclosure and trespass -- Chapter 3. Property, poverty and the rule of law -- Chapter 4. State crime: War and plunder, slavery, empire and famine -- Part II. Rich and poor crime in modern Britain -- Chapter 5. Rich and poor Britain -- Chapter 6. Offshoring: Corporate, financial and tax crime -- Chapter 7. Capturing the state: Corruption, outsourcing, privatization and austerity -- Chapter 8. Poor crime: Economic, welfare and policy cycles -- Part III. Connecting rich and poor crime -- Chapter 9. Coding capital: Protecting the rich and punishing the poor -- Chapter 10. Conclusion: 'there's one law for the rich and another for the poor'. 
520 |a In 21st century Britain the rich are protected while the poor punished. Rich Crime, Poor Crime shows how contemporary British society is founded on a legacy of past plunder and dispossession by elites against the rest. Over centuries, power and property have been consolidated in the hands of a few and coded in legal systems that favoured the rich and created extreme inequality. Colin Webster puts a spotlight on Britain's hereditary and new ruling classes, whose inherited entanglements in land ownership, war and conquest, new world slavery, finance, trade, industry and empire allow them to accumulate and grow capital and wealth at the expense of others. He reveals a system facilitated by political corruption and wealth that accommodates serious wrongdoing - such as corporate, banking and accounting fraud, money laundering and tax evasion - and does substantial harm to fellow Britons. Examining the conditions of extreme inequality that give rise to poor crime and rich crime - and to the social response to both types of crime - we find them to be deeply implicated one with the other. Rich Crime, Poor Crime is vital reading for academics and professionals interested in the fields of history, sociology, criminology, and politics. 
588 0 |a Print version record. 
650 0 |a Crime  |x Economic aspects. 
650 0 |a Crime  |x Sociological aspects. 
650 0 |a Criminology. 
650 0 |a Social stratification. 
650 7 |a Social Science  |x Criminology.  |2 bisacsh 
650 7 |a Crime & criminology.  |2 bicssc 
655 7 |a elektronické knihy  |7 fd186907  |2 czenas 
655 9 |a electronic books  |2 eczenas 
776 0 8 |i Print version:  |z 9781839098253 
776 0 8 |i PDF version:  |z 9781839098222 
856 4 0 |u https://proxy.k.utb.cz/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1108/9781839098222  |y Full text 

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