Steve Tombs is Professor of Criminology at the Open University. He has a long-standing interest in the incidence, nature and regulation of corporate and state crime, and has published widely on these matters. He works closely with the Hazards movement in the UK, was a founding member and Chair of the Centre for Corporate Accountability, and is on the Board of Inquest.

• Introduction: crime, harm, regulation;‘Freeing’capital: states, moralities and material work;From a crisis of regulation to a crisis of social protection?;The idea of regulation: academic orthodoxies;The idea of regulation: a conceptual and political critique;‘Regulation’in action;Conclusion: after regulation?;Bibliography.

"As an increasingly endangered species, we ignore Tombs's research at our peril." Environmental Health News "A devastating critique of neoliberal governance as it rises from the ashes of the global financial crisis" Dr Kristian Lasslett, Ulster University and author of State Crime on the Margins of Empire