State crime and immorality : the corrupting influence of the powerful / Mark Monaghan and Simon Prideaux.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Monaghan, Mark Peter, author.

Prideaux, Simon, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

State crimes.

Immorality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 248 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the first book to examine the activities of UK and international 'role models' through the lens of state crime and social policy. Written by experts in the field of sociology and social policy, it provides a comprehensive discussion of state immorality and deviance generally, and state crime in particular.

Contents:

STATE CRIME AND IMMORALITY; Contents; List of tables; About the authors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Revisiting the dark figure of crime; Rethinking 'the crime complex'; Researching 'non-conventional criminality' ; An overview of this book; 2. Defining the state and its institutions, allies and protagonists; The ideal state: an introduction; Neo-liberalism as a dynamic source of social cohesion; The delicate balance of state legitimation and the maintenance of order ; State maintenance, institutional power and governmental alliances

Summarising the state, its allies, institutions and protagonistsThe (im)possibility of the ideal state; Neo-liberalism as a corrupting and dangerous influence ; A crisis of legitimacy and state power; Defining state crime, governmental crime and political crime; State crime as the breach of national and international rules and regulations ; State crime as human rights violations; The social construction of state crime and organised deviance; Social harm: additional expressions of state criminality and deviance?; Summary; 3. The state, corporations and organised crime

Problematic definitions and terminological overlapOrganised criminality; Defining organised crime ; Corporate criminality; The utility of statistics: crimes against business ; State collusion, condolence and acquiescence: the case of corruption ; Summary; 4. Drugs and thugs: examples of organised crime, state collusion and limited responses; The selective enforcement of international drug legislation: state collusion, inactivity or ineptitude?; The international market for illicit drugs; The international heroin trade; Cocaine production and supply; 'Narco-terror'

Responding to (narco-) terrorism: pre-emption and exceptionalism and the limitations of the state Summary; 5. The media as both an influential and a supportive arm of the state; The rise (and fall) and durability of the Murdoch 'empire'; Murdoch's business model; Dictatorial control ; Courting political favour and 'making kings' ; Supporting/rewarding political figures ; Calling in the dues: circumventing competition laws; State and media collusion: corrupt payments and complex relations ; Inquiries into the British media since 2005; Summary

6. Beyond the borders: state terrorism from without and against the 'other'The Iraq invasion and the Iraq War; Legitimising invasion and war; Media support for the war; The role and subversion of Western capitalist interest; Erroneous mass interpretations of international law, misleading representations and ignorance of the democratic; The devastating effects of political violence, torture and state terrorism; Lack of reconstruction, lack of long-term awareness and the prevalence of social harm; A final word

7. Without and within: state crime in Northern Ireland (violence, collusion and the paramilitaries)

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Sep 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781447323419

1447323416

9781447316770

1447316770

9781447316763

1447316762

OCLC:

959951612