Steven Bittle
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 317517 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Steven Bittle |
| NOMBRES | Steven |
| APELLIDO | Bittle |
| FIRMA | BITTLE S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Ottawa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9311-5971 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Transparency for Whom? A Critical Examination of Beneficial Ownership Registries
Beneficial ownership registries (BORs) are the latest tool for combating global corruption. While the exact structure of BORs varies across jurisdictions, they generally require controlling owners of companies to submit details regarding their name, birth date, residence, service address, and citizenship to a government registry. The goal is to improve transparency of company ownership by deterring individuals from hiding behind “faceless” corpor…
Work-related suicide
The OECD and Ritualized Isomorphism
While there is considerable literature on the causes of corruption and its harmful effects, along with an extensive body of work focused on anti-corruptionism, there is a paucity of research that examines the anti-corruption dynamic. Few studies contemplate why anti-corruption rhetoric has come to occupy a central role in global governance, despite a growing consensus among some scholars that the anti-corruption movement has done little to reduce…
Extracting Profits
Taking the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE) as its focus, this paper critically examines the Canadian government’s efforts to regulate the extractive industry. Using insight from ideology theory and critical discourse analysis, and drawing empirically from Canadian Parliamentary debates, official government and NGO reports, and various news items regarding the development of the CORE, we document how dominant voices priorit…
Corporate violence at the conjuncture
This article critically examines structural impediments to the enforcement of laws that criminalize corporations for negligently killing workers and/or the public. Drawing empirically from a case in which three Canadian Pacific Railway workers were killed on the job, and from subsequent questions about the company’s negligence as the cause of death, as well as theoretical insights from the literature on conjunctural analysis, we explore the cultu…
Crime, Corporate
This entry explores why corporations and corporate executives produce so much harm and devastation and why states routinely fail to discipline corporations accordingly. It examines the structural conditions that make corporate crime both possible and plausible – the factors that render the corporation inherently criminogenic. Several issues are considered in this regard: defining corporate crime as a structural problematic; the legal architecture…
Valeria Vegh Weis
Corporate killing law reform
The first decade of the new millennium saw the governments of Canada and the United Kingdom enact criminal legislation intended to hold corporations accountable for negligently killing workers and/or members of the public. Drawing empirically from document analyses and semistructured interviews, as well as theoretical insights concerning the crisis-prone tendencies of capital, this article demonstrates how both laws were conceived in ways that sp…
Repositioning the corporate criminal
Over the past two decades, a number of states in the Global North have introduced laws aimed at holding corporations criminally liable. While there is an important literature examining these legal regimes there is a paucity of comparative work interrogating the different political struggles and processes leading to corporate criminal liability (CCL) legislation. This paper addresses this lacuna by comparing and contrasting the development of CCL …
Crimes of the Powerful
The Profits of Recognition
Work-Related Deaths in Canada
This paper critically examines official statistics on workplace fatalities in Canada. Each year the Association of Workers' Compensation Boards of Canada reports on the number of workers who die from a work-related injury or illness/disease. The problem, however, is that these data report the number of deaths that were accepted for compensation; it is not a system for tracking all work-related deaths. Drawing from a range of data sources and empl…
Tombs, Steve, Social Protection After the Crisis
S ocial Protection after the Crisis, written in the wake of the 2007/08 global financial disaster, aims to make sense of how and why western states remain committed to the idea that somehow, magically, the road to prosperity is paved with and by private enterprise.It notes how this commitment remains largely intact even after states were forced to bail out the financial industry for creating the crisis and despite mounting evidence of the massive…
Rational corporation meets disciplined worker
This paper uses Canada's corporate criminal liability legislation as an empirical exemplar with which to interrogate the limits of using the law to address the abuses of corporate power and to protect workers' safety. The author draws from Althusser's notion of interpellation to contemplate whether demands to discipline corporations through the law, particularly by labour/unions, misrecognise the problems of workplace safety, including that worke…
Law, Regulation, and Safety Crime
This article interrogates the laws that govern safety crimes, harmful but typically unintentional acts of negligence that occur in the production of goods and services. Acts that injure employees at work are commonly depicted in legal discourses as accidents and penalized through administrative laws, although other negligent acts such as driving offences causing injury or death are treated as potentially criminal events. Through a discourse analy…
Beyond Corporate Fundamentalism
This article uses Marxian class theory to examine the state's role in disciplining the modern corporation. Over the past decade, the Canadian government has enacted laws extending corporate criminal liability to safety crimes and stock market fraud, and considered, but ultimately decided against, legislation that would have made Canadian mining, oil and gas companies operating in developing countries liable under Canadian law. Using empirical dat…
Examining the Ruggie Report
From Manslaughter to Preventable Accident
This article looks at the assumptions, agendas, and relations of power that shaped Bill C‐45, revisions to the Criminal Code of Canada aimed at strengthening corporate criminal liability. The Bill, passed in fall 2003, originated in response to the deaths of twenty‐six workers at the Westray mine in 1993, a disaster caused by unsafe and illegal working conditions. Through an examination of Parliamentary Committee hearings, this article explores h…
From Manslaughter to Preventable Accident
This article looks at the assumptions, agendas, and relations of power that shaped Bill C‐45, revisions to the Criminal Code of Canada aimed at strengthening corporate criminal liability. The Bill, passed in fall 2003, originated in response to the deaths of twenty‐six workers at the Westray mine in 1993, a disaster caused by unsafe and illegal working conditions. Through an examination of Parliamentary Committee hearings, this article explores h…
Examining the Ruggie Report
Law, Regulation, and Safety Crime
This article interrogates the laws that govern safety crimes, harmful but typically unintentional acts of negligence that occur in the production of goods and services. Acts that injure employees at work are commonly depicted in legal discourses as accidents and penalized through administrative laws, although other negligent acts such as driving offences causing injury or death are treated as potentially criminal events. Through a discourse analy…
Corporate killing law reform
The first decade of the new millennium saw the governments of Canada and the United Kingdom enact criminal legislation intended to hold corporations accountable for negligently killing workers and/or members of the public. Drawing empirically from document analyses and semistructured interviews, as well as theoretical insights concerning the crisis-prone tendencies of capital, this article demonstrates how both laws were conceived in ways that sp…
The Profits of Recognition
Work-Related Deaths in Canada
This paper critically examines official statistics on workplace fatalities in Canada. Each year the Association of Workers' Compensation Boards of Canada reports on the number of workers who die from a work-related injury or illness/disease. The problem, however, is that these data report the number of deaths that were accepted for compensation; it is not a system for tracking all work-related deaths. Drawing from a range of data sources and empl…
Beyond Corporate Fundamentalism
This article uses Marxian class theory to examine the state's role in disciplining the modern corporation. Over the past decade, the Canadian government has enacted laws extending corporate criminal liability to safety crimes and stock market fraud, and considered, but ultimately decided against, legislation that would have made Canadian mining, oil and gas companies operating in developing countries liable under Canadian law. Using empirical dat…
From Manslaughter to Preventable Accident
This article looks at the assumptions, agendas, and relations of power that shaped Bill C‐45, revisions to the Criminal Code of Canada aimed at strengthening corporate criminal liability. The Bill, passed in fall 2003, originated in response to the deaths of twenty‐six workers at the Westray mine in 1993, a disaster caused by unsafe and illegal working conditions. Through an examination of Parliamentary Committee hearings, this article explores h…
Examining the Ruggie Report
Law, Regulation, and Safety Crime
This article interrogates the laws that govern safety crimes, harmful but typically unintentional acts of negligence that occur in the production of goods and services. Acts that injure employees at work are commonly depicted in legal discourses as accidents and penalized through administrative laws, although other negligent acts such as driving offences causing injury or death are treated as potentially criminal events. Through a discourse analy…
Beyond Corporate Fundamentalism
This article uses Marxian class theory to examine the state's role in disciplining the modern corporation. Over the past decade, the Canadian government has enacted laws extending corporate criminal liability to safety crimes and stock market fraud, and considered, but ultimately decided against, legislation that would have made Canadian mining, oil and gas companies operating in developing countries liable under Canadian law. Using empirical dat…
Rational corporation meets disciplined worker
This paper uses Canada's corporate criminal liability legislation as an empirical exemplar with which to interrogate the limits of using the law to address the abuses of corporate power and to protect workers' safety. The author draws from Althusser's notion of interpellation to contemplate whether demands to discipline corporations through the law, particularly by labour/unions, misrecognise the problems of workplace safety, including that worke…
Tombs, Steve, Social Protection After the Crisis
S ocial Protection after the Crisis, written in the wake of the 2007/08 global financial disaster, aims to make sense of how and why western states remain committed to the idea that somehow, magically, the road to prosperity is paved with and by private enterprise.It notes how this commitment remains largely intact even after states were forced to bail out the financial industry for creating the crisis and despite mounting evidence of the massive…
Repositioning the corporate criminal
Over the past two decades, a number of states in the Global North have introduced laws aimed at holding corporations criminally liable. While there is an important literature examining these legal regimes there is a paucity of comparative work interrogating the different political struggles and processes leading to corporate criminal liability (CCL) legislation. This paper addresses this lacuna by comparing and contrasting the development of CCL …
Crimes of the Powerful
The Profits of Recognition
Work-Related Deaths in Canada
This paper critically examines official statistics on workplace fatalities in Canada. Each year the Association of Workers' Compensation Boards of Canada reports on the number of workers who die from a work-related injury or illness/disease. The problem, however, is that these data report the number of deaths that were accepted for compensation; it is not a system for tracking all work-related deaths. Drawing from a range of data sources and empl…
Valeria Vegh Weis
Corporate killing law reform
The first decade of the new millennium saw the governments of Canada and the United Kingdom enact criminal legislation intended to hold corporations accountable for negligently killing workers and/or members of the public. Drawing empirically from document analyses and semistructured interviews, as well as theoretical insights concerning the crisis-prone tendencies of capital, this article demonstrates how both laws were conceived in ways that sp…
Crime, Corporate
This entry explores why corporations and corporate executives produce so much harm and devastation and why states routinely fail to discipline corporations accordingly. It examines the structural conditions that make corporate crime both possible and plausible – the factors that render the corporation inherently criminogenic. Several issues are considered in this regard: defining corporate crime as a structural problematic; the legal architecture…
Corporate violence at the conjuncture
This article critically examines structural impediments to the enforcement of laws that criminalize corporations for negligently killing workers and/or the public. Drawing empirically from a case in which three Canadian Pacific Railway workers were killed on the job, and from subsequent questions about the company’s negligence as the cause of death, as well as theoretical insights from the literature on conjunctural analysis, we explore the cultu…
Extracting Profits
Taking the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE) as its focus, this paper critically examines the Canadian government’s efforts to regulate the extractive industry. Using insight from ideology theory and critical discourse analysis, and drawing empirically from Canadian Parliamentary debates, official government and NGO reports, and various news items regarding the development of the CORE, we document how dominant voices priorit…
Work-related suicide
The OECD and Ritualized Isomorphism
While there is considerable literature on the causes of corruption and its harmful effects, along with an extensive body of work focused on anti-corruptionism, there is a paucity of research that examines the anti-corruption dynamic. Few studies contemplate why anti-corruption rhetoric has come to occupy a central role in global governance, despite a growing consensus among some scholars that the anti-corruption movement has done little to reduce…
Transparency for Whom? A Critical Examination of Beneficial Ownership Registries
Beneficial ownership registries (BORs) are the latest tool for combating global corruption. While the exact structure of BORs varies across jurisdictions, they generally require controlling owners of companies to submit details regarding their name, birth date, residence, service address, and citizenship to a government registry. The goal is to improve transparency of company ownership by deterring individuals from hiding behind “faceless” corpor…
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