Crime, harm and corporate power

Crime: Local and Global

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 137-172

  Tombs, Steve ^a   Whyte, David ^b  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

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