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Graham Dukes, John Braithwaite and J. P. Moloney, Pharmaceuticals, corporate crime and public health

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AuthorPaddy Rawlinson
DOI10.1177/0004865815595768
Published date01 December 2015
Date01 December 2015
Subject MatterBook Reviews
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Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 48(4)
to prioritise the voices of women above the requirements of academic form. This is an
admirable and defensible position, but unfortunately means that the collection tends to
do a more rigorous job of mapping and exploring issues of oppression rather than of
resistance. Nonetheless, it provides a solid starting point for further work in this area.
Similarly, its focus on structural issues of power is important, although in taking this
strong position, it fails to explore other inf‌luences that shape women’s experiences of
motherhood in prison and might augment or counter the inf‌luence of structural oppres-
sion. This is beyond the scope of the collection but reminds us that there is still much to
explore in this area.
Overall, this collection represents an important addition to our understanding of
women’s experiences, and it demands attention. It clearly demonstrates how individua-
lised explanations of mothers’ imprisonment experiences are insuf‌f‌icient. Instead,
mothers’ experiences need to be understood within broader social frameworks. By
exploring the inf‌luence of broader social systems and entrenched inequalities on the
form and function of prison systems, we can better understand and respond to the
lived experiences of mothers subject to these systems.
Graham Dukes, John Braithwaite and J. P. Moloney, Pharmaceuticals, corporate crime and public health.
Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, UK, 2014; 424 pp. ISBN 9781783471096, £95.00 (hbk), ISBN
9781784713614, £35.00 (pbk)
Reviewed by: Paddy Rawlinson, University of Western Sydney, Australia
‘So many criminologists study individual homicide, while so few have chosen to view
the topic of this book as meriting their attention’ (p. 282). This comment by John
Braithwaite in Pharmaceuticals, Corporate Crime and Public Health has a particular
resonance given that it was published 30 years after his sole-authored ground-breaking
study on the malpractice in the legal drug trade: Corporate...

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