State crime : current perspectives / edited by Dawn L. Rothe and Christopher W. Mullins ; foreword by William J. Chambliss ; introduction by M. Cherif Bassiouni.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rothe, Dawn, 1961- editor.

Mullins, Christopher W., 1971- editor.

Series:

Critical issues in crime and society.

Critical issues in crime and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political crimes and offenses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 332 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey ; London : Rutgers University Press, [2011].

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Current media and political discourse on crime has long ignored crimes committed by States themselves, despite their greater financial and human toll. For the past two decades, scholars have examined how and why States violate their own laws and international law and explored what can be done to reduce or prevent these injustices. Through a collection of essays by leading scholars in the field, State Crime offers a set of cases exemplifying state criminality along with various methods for controlling governmental transgressions. With topics ranging from crimes of aggression to nuclear weapons to the construction and implementation of social controls, this volume is an indispensable resource for those who examine the behavior of States and those who study crime in its varied forms.

Contents:

Revisiting crimes by the capitalist state / Gregg Barak

The crime of the last century and of this century / David O. Friedrichs

Nuclear weapons, international law, and the normalization of state crime / Ronald C. Kramer and David Kauzlarich

Empire and exceptionalism : the Bush administration's criminal war against Iraq / Ronald C. Kramer and Raymond J. Michalowski

Do empires commit state crime? / Peter Iadicola

Burundi / Kara Hoofnagle

Legal precedent, jurisprudence, and state crime : Pinochet and crimes against humanity / Dawn L. Rothe and Michael Bohlander

Reinventing controlling state crime and varieties of state crime and its control : reflections on what I would have done differently had I had to do it again / Jeffrey Ian Ross

Complementary and alternative domestic responses to state crime / Dawn L. Rothe

The fairness of Gacaca / Roelof H. Haveman and Alphonse Muleefu

"A baleful pestilent growth to which the axe must by all means be laid

- " : assassination of regime elites versus collateral civilian damage : an exploratory essay / Michael Bohlander and Dawn L. Rothe

How to restore justice in Serbia? : a closer look at peoples' opinions about post-war reconciliation / Stephan Parmentier, Marta Valiñas, and Elmar Weitekamp

The current status and role of the international criminal court / Christopher W. Mullins.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-36994-X

9786613369949

0-8135-5023-8

OCLC:

768082374