State crime in the global age
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State crime in the global age
Willan Pub., 2010
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- : hbk.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-293) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. In Search of the State and Crime in State Crime Studies 3. Toward a Criminology of Empire: Centrality of the Empire Concept in the Study of State Violence 4. Obligatory Sacrifice and Imperial Projects 5. Towards a Prospective Criminology of State Crime 6. Modern Institutionalized Torture 7. Privatizing International Conflict: War as Corporate Crime 8. From Guernica to Hiroshima to Baghdad: the Normalization of the State Crime of Terror Bombing Civilians 9. A Fake Law: the 'State of Exception' and Lex Mercatoria in Occupied Iraq 10. Dragon Rising: China's Foreign Aid Policy as a Counter Force Against the Criminogenic Conditions of International Finance Institution Policies? 11. Framing Innocents: the Wrongly Convicted as Victims of State Harm 12. Prosecutorial Misconduct as State Organized Crime?13. Harm Reduction Drug Programs and State Crime 14. Transitional Justice as Global Industry by Elizabeth Stanley 15. The Reason of State: Theoretical Inquiries and Consequences for the Criminology of State Crime 16. Epilogue: for a Public Criminology of State Crime
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