Introduction: crime, inequality, and the rule of law -- Part I: taking the long view -- Capitalism and crime in early modern England -- Accumulation by dispossession: land grabs, enclosure and trespass -- Property, poverty and the rule of law -- State crime: war and plunder, slavery, empire and famine -- Part II: rich and poor crime in Modern Britain -- Rich and poor Britain -- Offshoring: corporate, financial and tax crime -- Capturing the state: corruption, outsourcing, privatisation and austerity -- Poor crime: economic, welface and policy cycles -- Part III: connecting rich and poor crime -- Coding capital: protecting the rich and punishing the poor -- Conclusion: 'There's one law for the rich and another for the poor'.
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