"Dance your anger and your joys": Multinational corporations, power, "crime"

The Blackwell Companion to Criminology

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 359-376

  Pearce, Frank ^a   Tombs, Steve ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crime; Globalization; Multinational corporations; NEO liberalism; Power

Indexed keywords

EID: 30744477771     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470998960.ch19     Document Type: Chapter

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