State crime in the global age

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Title:

Author:

Chambliss, William J.

ISBN:

9781843927037

9781843927044

Publication Information:

Cullompton, Devon ; Portland, Or. : Willan Pub., 2010.

Physical Description:

xiv, 306 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

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.

Subject Term:

Political crimes and offenses.

Political corruption.

Political atrocities.

Added Author:

Chambliss, William J.

Michalowski, Raymond J.

Kramer, Ronald C.

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Summary

State Crime in the Global Age brings together original writings from leading scholars in the field to explore the many ways that the use and abuse of state power results in grave social harms that outweigh, by far, the consequences of ordinary street crime.

The topics covered include the crimes of empire, illegal war, the bombing of civilians, state sanctioned torture, state sacrifice of human lives, and judicial wrongdoing. The book breaks new ground through its examination of the ways globalization has intensified potentials for state crime, as well as bringing novel theoretical understandings of the state to the study of state crime, and exploring strategies for confronting state crime.

This book, while containing much that is of interest to scholars of state crime, is designed to be accessible to students and others who are concerned with the ways individuals, social groups, and whole nations are victimized by the misuse of state power.