State crime in the global age / edited by William J. Chambliss, Raymond Michalowski and Ronald C. Kramer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chambliss, William J.

Michalowski, Raymond J.

Kramer, Ronald C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political crimes and offenses.

Political corruption.

Political atrocities.

Physical Description:

xiv, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

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

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, Jonathan William Anderson and Tanya Whittle

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-293) and index.

ISBN:

9781843927037

1843927039

9781843927044

1843927047

OCLC:

502034766