CeASR Seminar- Rich Crime, Poor Crime: Inequality and the Rule of Law

Taking a leaf from Charles Tilly’s book Big Structures Large Processes Huge Comparisons (1984) this talk looks at a bigger, longer picture of the relationships between crime, the rule of law and emergent capitalism.

Britain’s financial and rentier capitalism plundered and privatised ‘the commons’, monopolized land ownership, and offshored profits and assets in secrecy jurisdictions. In the process blurring corporate and financial crime, money laundering and tax evasion and avoidance, helped by state corruption and policy. Past and current plunder and systemic corruption, fraud, deception and dispossession carried out by elites against the rest, raises the question of what the rule of law means in historical and contemporary context.

The Centre for Applied Social Research (CeASR) is a university-wide Research Centre which orchestrates interdisciplinary research across the social sciences in School of Humanities and Social Sciences in different programmes.