Professor Steve Tombs

Professor of Sociology

Steve has worked at LJMU since 1992. Previously he worked at the University of Wolverhampton, where he completed his doctorate examining the Management and Regulation of Safety in the UK Chemicals Industries.

His current main teaching areas are corporate crime, regulation, epistemology and methods in criminology and criminological theory.

Steve's main research interests are around the incidence, nature and regulation of corporate crime, and in particular the regulation and management and health and safety at work. His other main, current research interest is in the Politics of Knowledge.

Publications include a co-edited text – State, Power, Crime, with Roy Coleman, Joe Sim and Dave Whyte (Sage, 2009), A Crisis of Enforcement: the decriminalisation of death and injury at work (Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, 2008) and Safety Crimes (Willan, 2007), both co-authored with Dave Whyte. He also co-edited, with Dave Gordon, Paddy Hillyard and Christina Pantazis, Beyond Criminology? Taking Harm Seriously (Pluto Press, 2004) and Criminal Obsessions (Crime and Society Foundation, 2005, 2008); and Unmasking the Crimes of the Powerful: scrutinising states and corporations, with Dave Whyte (Peter Lang, 2003). He is co-author of Corporate Crime (Longman, 1999), with Gary Slapper, and Toxic Capitalism (Ashgate, 1998, Canadian Scholars' Press, 1999), with Frank Pearce. He also co-authored People in Organisations (Blackwell, 1996) and co-edited Risk, Management and Society (Kluwer-Nijhoff, 2000).

Steve has a long-term working relationship with the Hazards Movement.

Module Leader:

SSCCR1021 Studying Criminology 1
SSCCR1022 Studying Criminology 2
SSCCR1017 Key Concepts in Critical Criminology
SSCCR2016 Generating Criminological Knowledge
SSCCR3002 Corporate & White Collar Crime