The Coporate Underworld.

My aim is to raise public awareness within the local community by challenging conventional representations of crime, by doing this I will provide society with a clear understanding of "Hidden Crime" and why it is important that people should be aware of these concealed offences within the public media. In addition to this I will present a range of images taken by myself to visually evoke a response within the local community. These images, along with strong written explanations will be exhibited online as part of a community challenge research project and will seek to create a different perspective on media, crime and the judicial system.
These images were taken by myself, as a representation of the sheer realities of health and safety regulations and how many companies 'cut corners' when it comes to maintaining a safe environment for workers. I will also analyse and evaluate the legal process behind prosecution and government approaches to injury and death at work.

(Tombs and Whyte, 2008:12) "You are two to three times more likely to be killed by a work related incident than a homicide"

On a daily basis we soak up the visual media all around us from television, radio and magazines, we are constantly inviting what we see into our everyday life. The media sensationalises transgression to produce moral panic and many people consider this to be a source of power and control, as it has a detrimental affect on what we believe in our community. (Pantazis and Pemberton 2012) suggests (...) "powerful discourses that exist to portray what, but also whom we should fear" (2012:42) for centuries this form of control has been the pin-point in creating a national response by the dominating leaders and the ever growing moral entrepreneurs.

(Tombs and Whyte, 2008:12) "Almost mine out of ten major injuries known to the health and safety executive are not investigated"
Yet why is there such secrecy in the political world and these large scale companies all around the UK that continue to ignore regulations, nevertheless directors and the highest people who own these companies do not get punished in the same way and completely bypass law enforcement because political bodies fail to recognise the moral aspects of the crimes.

(Tombs and Whyte, 2008:12) "Only about a quarter of reportable non-fatal injuries to employees are actually reported by employers"

National figures published in 2012 by the health and safety executive show that the figures remain largely unchanged from previous years and around 175 workers died in 2010/2011 as a direct result in lack of secure measures within the health and safety sector. Health and safety executive (2012) HSE inspector Mr M. Tinsley explains;

"Sadly, incidents like this are still all too common in the manufacturing industry. Employers have a legal duty to make sure machinery is properly guarded to protect their workers".