While safety crimes far outweigh crimes of conventional violence, British criminology continues to operate with rather narrow definitions of violence which exclude these. The aim of this paper is to examine the key ways in which occupational injury and death remain excluded by criminological...

How do gangs compete for extortion? Using detailed data on individual extortion payments to gangs and sales from a leading wholesale distribution firm in El Salvador, we document new evidence on the determinants of extortion payments and the economic costs of extortion via pass-through. We...

How do gangs compete for extortion? Using detailed data on individual extortion payments to gangs and sales from a leading wholesale distributor of consumer goods and pharmaceuticals in El Salvador, we document evidence on the determinants of extortion payments and the effects of extortion on...

1. Introduction -- 2. Humans and venison -- 3. Victims of progress -- 4. Rural philosophy and natural law -- 5. From a 'modest proposal' to eugenics -- 6. Invisible hand and visible injury -- 7. Value, risk and deviant innovation -- 8. Marginal utility and the hidden economy -- 9. Socialism for...