Hazel J Hartley

Exploring Sport and Leisure Disasters

A Socio-Legal Perspective

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Produktbeschreibung

First published in 2001. This book provides a socio-legal analysis of disasters by setting out two sport and leisure disasters (the 1989 Hillsborough and Marchioness disasters) and considering them in their broader legal/political/economic and policy contexts. It bases the analysis on in-depth examinations of the legal responses to these disasters.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 442
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9780367137335
• ISBN-10: 036713733X
• Artikelnr.: 66570807

Autorenporträt

Hazel J. Hartley

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Disasters -
Conceptions and Concepts 2. Liberal Democracy, the State and the Rule of
Law 3. Strength in Numbers? Mass Actions in Nervous Shock 4. Safe in Their
Hands? Criminal Liability: Breaches of Statutory Duties and Corporate
Reckless Manslaughter 5. Two Versions of an Inquisition: Inquests and
Public Inquiries into Individual and Mass Deaths 6. Case Study One: The
1989 Hillsborough Football Stadium Disaster 7. Case Study Two: The 1989
Marchioness Disaster 8. Critical Evaluation and Conclusions; Appendices;
Bibliography; Index