Towards a victimology of state crime / edited by Dawn L. Rothe and David Kauzlarich.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rothe, Dawn, 1961- editor.

Kauzlarich, David, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

State crimes.

Victims of crimes.

Human rights.

Political atrocities.

Physical Description:

xiii, 263 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2014.

Summary:

Millions of people have been victimized by the actions and omissions of states and governments. This collection provides expert analyses of such victimizations across the world, from Europe, the United States, and Africa to New Zealand and South America.

Contents:

pt. I State crimes, harms, and victimizations

1.A victimology of state crime / David Kauzlarich

2.The victimization of street children in Brazil / Fernanda Fonseca Rosenblatt

3.Accumulating atrocities: capital, state killing and the cultural life of the dead / Travis Linnemann

4.The victimization of children in state-run homes in New Zealand / Elizabeth Stanley

5.Somali pirates: victims or perpetrators or both? / Victoria Ellen Collins

6.Victimizing the undocumented: immigration policy and border enforcement as state crime / Lisa Hardy

7."Death flies down": the bombing of civilians and the paradox of international law / Amanda Marie Smith

8.State crime and the re-victimization of displaced populations: the case of Haiti / Victoria Ellen Collins

9.Victimisation during and after war: empirical findings from Bosnia / Elmar G.M. Weitekamp

pt. II Responses to state crime victimization

Contents note continued: 10.European Court of Human Rights: accountability to whom? / Isabel Schoultz

11.The victims of the Colombian conflict and restorative justice / Isabella Bueno

12.Institutional and structural victimisation: apartheid South Africa / Robert Peacock

13.Controlling state crime and the possibility of creating more victims / Peter Grabosky

14.Can an international criminal justice system address victims' needs? / Dawn L. Rothe.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

041563900X

9780415639002

9780415733755

0415733758

OCLC:

853494415

Publisher Number:

99958422589