ABSTRACT
Throughout this book we have set out numerous ways in which the construction industry is vulnerable to crime and harm. In so doing, we focused on state-corporate processes, which help to explain ‘industry’ as a key unit of analysis especially for precarious employment, poor health and safety, and other forms of labour exploitation. Along the way, we have referred to various physical, psychological, financial, and other harms that affect individuals, groups, as well as other businesses and entities. This chapter serves as the conclusion to the book, whereby we summarise key arguments and relate back to the contributions of state-corporate crime and harm to explain criminogenic structures of industries within construction. On this basis, we suggest several interventions across the macro, meso, and micro levels to improve the regulatory environment of the construction industry. Some of the suggested interventions go beyond the criminal justice system and are directed at a variety of stakeholders representing the state, business, workers, and civil society. Ultimately, tackling embedded crime and harm across industries such as construction requires an imaginative, long-term, and holistic approach that criminology can be a part of due to the analytic focus that white-collar, corporate, and state-corporate crime offers.
