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How Corrupt Is Britain? de David Whyte

How Corrupt Is Britain?

Editat de David Whyte
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 mar 2015
Banks accused of rate-fixing. Members of parliament cooking the books. Major defense contractors investigated over suspect arms deals. Police accused of being paid off by tabloids. The headlines are unrelenting these days. Perhaps it’s high time we ask: Just exactly how corrupt is Britain?
            David Whyte brings together a wide range of leading commentators and campaigners, offering a series of troubling answers. Unflinchingly facing the corruption in British public life, they show that it is no longer tenable to assume that corruption is something that happens elsewhere; corrupt practices are revealed across a wide range of venerated institutions, from local government to big business. These powerful, punchy essays aim to shine a light on the corruption fundamentally embedded in UK politics, police, and finance.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780745335308
ISBN-10: 0745335306
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 135 x 215 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: PLUTO PRESS
Colecția Pluto Press

Notă biografică

Ines Doujak is an artist working in London and Vienna, where she studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (1988–93). She was project leader of the arts based research ´Loomshuttles / Warpaths´, funded by the FWF Austrian Science Funds (2010-2014). _x000B_Oliver Ressler is an artist and filmmaker based in Vienna. His work has been exhibited across the world including at the Berkeley Art Museum, USA, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul and the Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum, Egypt. He is the editor of Alternative Economics, Alternative Societies (2007).

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Preface: Will McMahon, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
Introduction: A Very British Corruption, David Whyte
Part 1: Neo-liberalism and Corruption
1: Moving Beyond A Narrow Definition Of Corruption, David Beetham
2: The New Normal: Moral Economies in the ‘Age of Fraud’, Jörg Wiegratz
3: Neoliberalism, politics and institutional corruption, David Miller
Part 2: Corruption in Policing
4: Policed by Consent? The Myth and the Betrayal, Phil Scraton
5: Hillsborough: The Long Struggle to Expose Police Corruption, Sheila Coleman
6: Justice Denied: Police Accountability and the Killing of Mark Duggan, Joanna Gilmore and Waqas Tufail
Part 3: Corruption in Government and Public Institutions
7: British State Torture: From ‘Search and Try’ to ‘Hide and Lie’, Paul O’Connor
8: The return of the repressed: secrets, lies, denial and ‘historical’ institutional child sexual abuse scandals, Chris Greer and Eugene McLaughlin
9: Politics, Government and Corruption: The Case of the Private Finance Initiative, Michael Mair and Paul Jones
10: Revolving-door Politics and Corruption, Stuart Wilks-Heeg
Part 4: Corruption in Finance and the Corporate Sector
11: Accounting for Corruption in the ‘Big 4’ Accountancy Firms, Prem Sikka
12: On Her Majesty’s Secrecy Service, John Christensen
13: Corporate Theft and Impunity in Financial Services, Steve Tombs
14: High Pay and Corruption, Luke Hildyard
Notes on Contributors
Index

Recenzii

"This excellent book should be read by everyone--but particularly by those who harbor 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."

"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."