In search of 'state and crime' in state crime studies / Raymond Michalowski -- The centrality of empire in the study of state crime and violence / Peter Iadicola -- Obligatory sacrifice and imperial projects / Frank Pearce -- Toward a prospective criminology of state crime / David O. Friedrichs -- Modern institutionalized torture as state-organized crime / Martha K. Huggins -- War as corporate crime / Vincenzo Ruggiero -- From Guernica to Hiroshima to Baghdad : the normalization of the terror bombing of civilians / Ronald C. Kramer -- The neo-liberal state of exception in occupied Iraq / David Whyte -- China's aid policy toward economically weakened states : a case of state criminality? / Dawn L. Rothe -- Framing innocents : the wrongly convicted as victims of state harm / Saundra D. Westervelt and Kimberly J. Cook -- Prosecutorial overcharging as state crime? / Lauren N. Lang -- The politics of harm reduction policies / William J. Chambliss ... [et al.] -- The globalization of transitional justice / Elizabeth Stanley -- The reason of state : theoretical inquiries and consequences for the criminology of state crime / Athanasios Chouliaras -- Epilogue : toward a public criminology of state crime / Ronald C. Kramer, Raymond Michalowski and William J. Chambliss.