This vital book exposes the devastating ways families are treated after their loved ones have been killed by a relatively powerful perpetrator; revealing how families are harmed; silenced by the criminal justice process and invisible in both criminology and the mainstream media. Drawing on landmark cases such as the Grenfell fire, it explores the failures of de-regulation and how institutional perpetrators fail to be held accountable.
Centering the voices of secondary victimsthose left behind after corporate harmit highlights the ways in which justice is avoided, and the effect of this on the families. A vital contribution to zemiology and the study of corporate crime, this book confronts the true cost of crimes committed by the powerful.
Introduction: Aims, Methodology,
Chapter Outline
1. Safety Crime: Criminology and Social Harm
2. A Biography of Harm, Victims and Secondary Victims of the Powerful: Deaths
by Private Institutions
3. A Common Response: Deaths by Public Institutions
4. How Victims and Secondary Victims Are Pushed to Invisibility
5. Harmful Effects on Secondary Victims
Conclusion: Alternative Social Arrangements as the Counter to Invisibility
and Harm
Katy Snell is Lecturer of Criminology at the University of Hull.
