The resource boom's underbelly: Criminological impacts of mining development

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 335-354

  Carrington, Kerry ^a   Hogg, Russell ^b   McIntosh, Alison ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

corporate harm; masculinity; post industrial mining regimes; work camps

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857598390     PISSN: 00048658     EISSN: 18379273     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0004865811419068     Document Type: Article

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