RT Article T1 Theorizing institutional scandal and the regulatory state JF Theoretical criminology VO 21 IS 2 SP 112 OP 132 A1 Greer, Chris A2 McLaughlin, Eugene 1959- LA English YR 2017 UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1560424184 AB One by one, UK public institutions are being scandalized for corruption, immorality or incompetence and subjected to trial by media and criminal prosecution. The state’s historic response to public sector scandal—denial and neutralization—has been replaced with acknowledgement and regulation in the form of the re-vamped public inquiry. Public institutions are being cut adrift and left to account in isolation for their scandalous failures. Yet the state’s attempts to distance itself from its scandalized institutions, while extending its regulatory control over them, are risky. Both the regulatory state and its public inquiries risk being consumed by the scandals they are trying to manage. K1 Intermediatization K1 Public inquiry K1 Regulatory state K1 Risk K1 Scandal K1 Trial by media DO 10.1177/1362480616645648