How Corrupt is Britain? - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745335306 ISBN 13: 9780745335308

Publisher: Pluto Press, 2015

Synopsis

How Corrupt is Britain?

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Review:

This excellent book should be read by everyone but particularly by those who harbour a belief that our liberal democracy protects against the worst forms of state-corporate crime. What the authors in this powerful volume reveal is a network of egregious state and corporate corruption in Britain to rival any in the developing world. With the very agencies of accountability also chief offenders, the book s conclusion is inevitable - that only radical resistance from the public sphere can hope to challenge the culture of impunity which currently protects the most powerful. --Penny Green, Professor of Law and Globalisation, Queen Mary University of London, Director of the International State Crime Initiative

At last, a book that asks the right questions about corruption, and provides some fascinating and important answers. Corruption isn t what or where most people think it is. --Nicholas Shaxson, author of Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World

About the Author:

David Whyte is Reader in Sociology at the University of Liverpool. He is an internationally established author on the subjects of state power and corporate power, having written Crimes of the Powerful: A Reader (Open University Press, 2009) and having co-authored three further books and co-edited four collections on this subject.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0745335306
• ISBN 13: 9780745335308
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Whyte David