Bridget M Hutter
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 298091 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Bridget M Hutter |
| NOMBRES | Bridget M |
| APELLIDO | Hutter |
| FIRMA | HUTTER B M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9266-5733 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 124 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1986 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Risk, interest groups and the definition of crisis
This paper considers a key aspect of the 'risk society' thesis: the belief that we should be able to manage risks and control the world around us. In particular it focuses on the interface between risk and risk events as socially constructed and the insights that 'critical situations' give us into 'the routine and mundane', the otherwise taken for granted assumptions underlying risk regulation. It does this with reference to the events precipitat…
Risk regulation and health care
Risk regulation analyses the organization and institutional settings for risk regulation and regulatory practice. This special issue focuses on risk regulation research with respect to two main areas of health care: infrastructure and service provisions and the risk regulation of critical areas relating to patient safety. This editorial draws out some of the main themes in risk regulation studies as they relate to these papers. Risk and governanc…
Reforming regulation of the medical profession
Risk-based regulation is growing in popularity and in the UK has official backing as part of the government's modernization programme. State and non-state regulators alike are under pressure to adopt risk-based approaches. With radical reform of the General Medical Council (GMC) in progress, the rhetoric of risk-based regulation is used by both the Department of Health and the GMC, and is evident in the 2007 White Paper Trust, Assurance and Safet…
From government to governance
The influence of external organizations and pressures on business risk management practices has hitherto been examined through the influence of state regulatory regimes on businesses. This article concentrates on key socio‐legal concerns about the influence of the law in social and economic life. We know that the sources of regulation and risk management are diversifying beyond the state. What we donothave is much empirically informed research ab…
Continuing the public sociology debate – Editor's preface
Is Enforced Self-regulation a Form of Risk Taking
Compliance
Regulation touches upon areas of vital importance to our lives and the economy, but it is still very much a 'grey area' of criminal law and social control, subject to very little academic scrutiny. This book combines an analysis of the broader structural factors which influence regulation and its definition at the everyday level with a discussion of empirical data, to reach a thorough understanding of the subject. The empirical data focuses on th…
Studies in Symbolic Interaction Volume 15
Regulating Employers and Employees
The Health and Safety at Work, etc. Act, 1974, (HSW Act) embodied a radical new approach to workplace health and safety in Britain, an important feature of which was an emphasis upon employees as participatory rather than passive agents in the workplace. Prior to the Act, the well-being of the workforce had been largely the preserve and responsibility of employers.' This post-Robens legislation, however, gave employees responsibility and expected…
The Response of Business to Social Regulation in England and Wales
This paper considers business adaptation to legal regulation from an enforcement perspective. It is argued that regulatory agencies and business have a reflexive relationship in which there is a continual process of adaptation and readaptation by one party and then the other. This reflexivity and its implications are discussed with reference to socio‐legal research into the regulation of occupational health and safety and environmental pollution …
Regulation
T he use of the law to regulate business and industrial activities has been a feature of 20th-century life in Western industrial societies. Yet it is only in recent years that this form of legal and social control has become the subject of academic attention. Much of the early work on regulation has followed in the tradition of sociological and criminological studies of the police, in particular ethnographic studies of the regulatory enforcement …
Public Accident Inquiries
For over a century the public investigation of railway accidents has been an important part of the Railway Inspectorate's regulatory activity. This article examines the circumstances and conduct of these inquiries, paying particular attention to their purpose and how this is influenced by wider social and political concerns. It also traces the Inspectorate's efforts to maintain the inquisitorial rather than accusatorial style of these inquiries a…
The Power of Accidents
Inspectorates of the Health and Safety Executive are notified of work accidents ranging from minor to catastrophic, and investigate a subset of around 5 per cent with a view to possible enforcement action. Drawing on empirical data on the Factory, Agricultural, and Railway Inspectorates, we discuss how the social and psychological impact of accidents affects the work of safety inspectors. Reactive enforcement following accidents has important adv…
The Contexts of Regulation
It is argued that the systematic study of regulation should include an analysis of the structural contexts within which agencies with enforcement authority are embedded. At least four contexts affect indirectly and directly the process of regulation: the political, the economic, the scholarly and the media. The period of the mid‐ ‘eighties in Britain is characterized and trends in that period are described. The decline in resources, a political a…
The Reasonable Arm of the Law? The Law Enforcement Procedures of Environmental Health Officers
Variations in Regulatory Enforcement Styles
This paper examines intra‐ and inter‐agency variations in the enforcement styles of three regulatory inspectorates in Great Britain. It is argued that the accommodative approach typically associated with regulatory enforcement is not a homogeneous and uniform concept, rather it embraces a range of strategies. These are described and a variety of organisational, social and political factors are considered as explanations of the variations which ar…
The Struggle for Workers' Health (Book)
An Inspector Calls
This paper examines the significance of proactive enforcement strategies in the regulation of business and industry in England and Wales. Attention is paid to the way in which regulatory agencies mobilise their resources proactively and the nature of the routine visits they undertake. In response to those who criticise such strategies, it is argued that regulatory officials undertake a multiplicity of roles and activities during these visits, ran…
Women, Health and the Family (Book)
Variations in Regulatory Enforcement Styles
This paper examines intra‐ and inter‐agency variations in the enforcement styles of three regulatory inspectorates in Great Britain. It is argued that the accommodative approach typically associated with regulatory enforcement is not a homogeneous and uniform concept, rather it embraces a range of strategies. These are described and a variety of organisational, social and political factors are considered as explanations of the variations which ar…
From government to governance
The influence of external organizations and pressures on business risk management practices has hitherto been examined through the influence of state regulatory regimes on businesses. This article concentrates on key socio‐legal concerns about the influence of the law in social and economic life. We know that the sources of regulation and risk management are diversifying beyond the state. What we donothave is much empirically informed research ab…
The Response of Business to Social Regulation in England and Wales
This paper considers business adaptation to legal regulation from an enforcement perspective. It is argued that regulatory agencies and business have a reflexive relationship in which there is a continual process of adaptation and readaptation by one party and then the other. This reflexivity and its implications are discussed with reference to socio‐legal research into the regulation of occupational health and safety and environmental pollution …
The Power of Accidents
Inspectorates of the Health and Safety Executive are notified of work accidents ranging from minor to catastrophic, and investigate a subset of around 5 per cent with a view to possible enforcement action. Drawing on empirical data on the Factory, Agricultural, and Railway Inspectorates, we discuss how the social and psychological impact of accidents affects the work of safety inspectors. Reactive enforcement following accidents has important adv…
An Inspector Calls
This paper examines the significance of proactive enforcement strategies in the regulation of business and industry in England and Wales. Attention is paid to the way in which regulatory agencies mobilise their resources proactively and the nature of the routine visits they undertake. In response to those who criticise such strategies, it is argued that regulatory officials undertake a multiplicity of roles and activities during these visits, ran…
The Contexts of Regulation
It is argued that the systematic study of regulation should include an analysis of the structural contexts within which agencies with enforcement authority are embedded. At least four contexts affect indirectly and directly the process of regulation: the political, the economic, the scholarly and the media. The period of the mid‐ ‘eighties in Britain is characterized and trends in that period are described. The decline in resources, a political a…
Risk, interest groups and the definition of crisis
This paper considers a key aspect of the 'risk society' thesis: the belief that we should be able to manage risks and control the world around us. In particular it focuses on the interface between risk and risk events as socially constructed and the insights that 'critical situations' give us into 'the routine and mundane', the otherwise taken for granted assumptions underlying risk regulation. It does this with reference to the events precipitat…
Public Accident Inquiries
For over a century the public investigation of railway accidents has been an important part of the Railway Inspectorate's regulatory activity. This article examines the circumstances and conduct of these inquiries, paying particular attention to their purpose and how this is influenced by wider social and political concerns. It also traces the Inspectorate's efforts to maintain the inquisitorial rather than accusatorial style of these inquiries a…
Is Enforced Self-regulation a Form of Risk Taking
Continuing the public sociology debate – Editor's preface
Regulating Employers and Employees
The Health and Safety at Work, etc. Act, 1974, (HSW Act) embodied a radical new approach to workplace health and safety in Britain, an important feature of which was an emphasis upon employees as participatory rather than passive agents in the workplace. Prior to the Act, the well-being of the workforce had been largely the preserve and responsibility of employers.' This post-Robens legislation, however, gave employees responsibility and expected…
An Inspector Calls
This paper examines the significance of proactive enforcement strategies in the regulation of business and industry in England and Wales. Attention is paid to the way in which regulatory agencies mobilise their resources proactively and the nature of the routine visits they undertake. In response to those who criticise such strategies, it is argued that regulatory officials undertake a multiplicity of roles and activities during these visits, ran…
Women, Health and the Family (Book)
The Struggle for Workers' Health (Book)
The Reasonable Arm of the Law? The Law Enforcement Procedures of Environmental Health Officers
Variations in Regulatory Enforcement Styles
This paper examines intra‐ and inter‐agency variations in the enforcement styles of three regulatory inspectorates in Great Britain. It is argued that the accommodative approach typically associated with regulatory enforcement is not a homogeneous and uniform concept, rather it embraces a range of strategies. These are described and a variety of organisational, social and political factors are considered as explanations of the variations which ar…
The Power of Accidents
Inspectorates of the Health and Safety Executive are notified of work accidents ranging from minor to catastrophic, and investigate a subset of around 5 per cent with a view to possible enforcement action. Drawing on empirical data on the Factory, Agricultural, and Railway Inspectorates, we discuss how the social and psychological impact of accidents affects the work of safety inspectors. Reactive enforcement following accidents has important adv…
The Contexts of Regulation
It is argued that the systematic study of regulation should include an analysis of the structural contexts within which agencies with enforcement authority are embedded. At least four contexts affect indirectly and directly the process of regulation: the political, the economic, the scholarly and the media. The period of the mid‐ ‘eighties in Britain is characterized and trends in that period are described. The decline in resources, a political a…
Public Accident Inquiries
For over a century the public investigation of railway accidents has been an important part of the Railway Inspectorate's regulatory activity. This article examines the circumstances and conduct of these inquiries, paying particular attention to their purpose and how this is influenced by wider social and political concerns. It also traces the Inspectorate's efforts to maintain the inquisitorial rather than accusatorial style of these inquiries a…
Regulating Employers and Employees
The Health and Safety at Work, etc. Act, 1974, (HSW Act) embodied a radical new approach to workplace health and safety in Britain, an important feature of which was an emphasis upon employees as participatory rather than passive agents in the workplace. Prior to the Act, the well-being of the workforce had been largely the preserve and responsibility of employers.' This post-Robens legislation, however, gave employees responsibility and expected…
The Response of Business to Social Regulation in England and Wales
This paper considers business adaptation to legal regulation from an enforcement perspective. It is argued that regulatory agencies and business have a reflexive relationship in which there is a continual process of adaptation and readaptation by one party and then the other. This reflexivity and its implications are discussed with reference to socio‐legal research into the regulation of occupational health and safety and environmental pollution …
Regulation
T he use of the law to regulate business and industrial activities has been a feature of 20th-century life in Western industrial societies. Yet it is only in recent years that this form of legal and social control has become the subject of academic attention. Much of the early work on regulation has followed in the tradition of sociological and criminological studies of the police, in particular ethnographic studies of the regulatory enforcement …
Studies in Symbolic Interaction Volume 15
Compliance
Regulation touches upon areas of vital importance to our lives and the economy, but it is still very much a 'grey area' of criminal law and social control, subject to very little academic scrutiny. This book combines an analysis of the broader structural factors which influence regulation and its definition at the everyday level with a discussion of empirical data, to reach a thorough understanding of the subject. The empirical data focuses on th…
Is Enforced Self-regulation a Form of Risk Taking
Continuing the public sociology debate – Editor's preface
From government to governance
The influence of external organizations and pressures on business risk management practices has hitherto been examined through the influence of state regulatory regimes on businesses. This article concentrates on key socio‐legal concerns about the influence of the law in social and economic life. We know that the sources of regulation and risk management are diversifying beyond the state. What we donothave is much empirically informed research ab…
Risk regulation and health care
Risk regulation analyses the organization and institutional settings for risk regulation and regulatory practice. This special issue focuses on risk regulation research with respect to two main areas of health care: infrastructure and service provisions and the risk regulation of critical areas relating to patient safety. This editorial draws out some of the main themes in risk regulation studies as they relate to these papers. Risk and governanc…
Reforming regulation of the medical profession
Risk-based regulation is growing in popularity and in the UK has official backing as part of the government's modernization programme. State and non-state regulators alike are under pressure to adopt risk-based approaches. With radical reform of the General Medical Council (GMC) in progress, the rhetoric of risk-based regulation is used by both the Department of Health and the GMC, and is evident in the 2007 White Paper Trust, Assurance and Safet…
Risk, interest groups and the definition of crisis
This paper considers a key aspect of the 'risk society' thesis: the belief that we should be able to manage risks and control the world around us. In particular it focuses on the interface between risk and risk events as socially constructed and the insights that 'critical situations' give us into 'the routine and mundane', the otherwise taken for granted assumptions underlying risk regulation. It does this with reference to the events precipitat…
Political science (15 obras) · Law (13 obras) · Regulation and Compliance Studies (13 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Public relations (9 obras) · Business (8 obras) · Computer Science (7 obras) · Enforcement (7 obras) · Engineering (5 obras)