This book analyses and compares British and Italian occupational health
and safety (OHS) enforcement policies. Regulatory enforcement policies
is a highly debated field of study in the academic literature and
politics. The extended amount of harm and suffering caused by OHS
incidents in developed countries and the limited concern that a number
of academics and politicians have on this issue, and on the under-criminalisation
of these crimes, exposes a fundamental controversial aspect
of modern liberal values of social justice and equality. The innovative
regulatory enforcement policies theorised by academics and adopted by
jurisdictions since the 1970s is evidence of this fundamental issue and a
transnational comparative analysis of jurisdictions with different social,
political and criminal justice system values offers an important contribution
to the literature and political debate. This book compares British
and Italian OHS enforcement policies in a Marxist critical theoretical
framework by analysing how modern socio-political values and globally
accepted means of economic production embraced by developed
jurisdictions are the root causes of the under-criminalisation of OHS
crimes. The book analyses the British and Italian legal and political values
and practices, the historical contexts in which the regulations