Disasters: conceptions and context -- Liberal democracy, the state, and the rule of law -- Strength in numbers? Mass actions in nervous shock -- Safe in their hands? Criminal liability: breaches of statutory duties and corporate reckless manslaughter -- Two versions of an inquisition: inquests and public inquiries into individual and mass deaths -- Case study one: the 1989 Hillsborough Football Stadium disaster -- Case study two: the 1989 Marchioness disaster -- Critical evaluation and conclusions
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