David Whyte
David Whyte is Professor of Climate Justice at Queen Mary University of London. His most recent book is Ecocide (2020, Manchester University Press); previous books include Crimes of the Powerful (2009, Open University Press), The Corporate Criminal (with Steve Tombs, 2015, Routledge) How Corrupt is Britain? (ed., 2015, Pluto), The Violence of Austerity (ed. with Vickie Cooper, 2017, Pluto), and Corporate Human Rights Violations (with Stefanie Khoury, 2017).
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Covering a range of famous cases of institutional violence in Britain, the book argues that police attacks on the homeless, violent evictions in the rented sector, the risks faced by people on workfare schemes, community violence in Northern Ireland and cuts to the regulation of social protection, are all being driven by reductions in public sector funding. The result is a shocking expose of the myriad ways in which austerity policies harm people in Britain.