Handbook on state criminality / edited by Dawn L. Rothe (professor of criminology, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Florida Atlantic University), Victoria E. Collins (director of criminal justice programs and associate professor, College of Social Work, University of Kentucky) and Calli M. Cain (assistant professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Denver, USA).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rothe, Dawn Lynnette, editor.

Collins, Victoria E., editor.

Cain, Calli M., editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminology--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Criminology.

State crimes--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

State crimes.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026.

Summary:

"This authoritative Handbook explores new developments in scholarship on state criminality, highlighting how private capital, corporations, and states' interests intersect. Expert contributors demonstrate that state criminality is not a deviation from governance but one of its central logics, embedded in capitalism and neoliberal logics, patriarchalism, empire, and global governance. Reflecting recent global events and concerns, the Handbook examines digital governance, financial harm, gender, colonialism, immigration and atrocity violence. From environmental harms, and trafficking, to crypto, sports, and space expansionism, the Handbook moves beyond the earlier definitional issues and efforts of establishing the topic as a legitimate field of inquiry. It provides a cross-section of the variety of work that is encapsulated under the umbrella of state criminality. The Handbook of State Criminality is a valuable resource for scholars and students of white-collar crime, state and corporate crime, crimes of the powerful, as well as politics, public policy, and sociology more broadly. Practitioners in criminal law and policymakers regulating global governance will also greatly benefit from the insights provided"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Editors' introduction to Handbook on State Criminality / Dawn L. Rothe, Victoria E. Collins, and Calli M. Cain

Part I: Digital Governance, Financial Harm, And Global Accountability

1. Corporate complicity in international crimes / Isabel Schoultz and Maximilian Funder

2. Ritualized isomorphism, anti-corruption monitoring, and the transnational political order / Steven Bittle and Jon Frauley

3. The blockchain state: crypto-assets, authoritarianism, and the legalization of financial harm / Jose Atiles

4. Digital sovereignty, material atrocities: social media corporations as state criminal actors / Rachel E. Davis

Part II: Environmental Harm And Beyond

5. The state, criminality, and environmental harm / Rob White

6. Twin apocalyptic state crimes: the nexus between nuclear weapons and climate change / Ronald C. Kramer

7. The epitome of state-corporate crime, environmental destruction, and space expansionism / Victoria E. Collins and Dawn L. Rothe

8. The cosmic hall of mirrors: a criminological imagination of the statecorporate power, science fiction, and space exploration triad / Yarin Eski

Part III: Gender, Culture, And Resistance

9. Queering state crime / Emily Lenning and Sara Brightman

10. Woman abuse in sports-related contexts: the contribution of the state / Walter S. DeKeseredy

11. Where's the joke? An abolition feminist critique of visual humor regarding state rape / Vivian Swayne

12. Musical resistance to gendered state crime in Iran / David Kauzlarich

Part IV: Empire, Colonialism, And Historical Violence

13. Colonization, coloniality, and state crime: decolonizing criminological thought / Ian Warren, Tatiana Corrales, and Emma Ryan

14. Decolonizing state crime criminology: mainstreaming Southern justice mechanisms to deal with colonial crimes / Valeria Vegh Weis

15. A haunting memory: the ghosts of Gettysburg and state-sponsored structural violence / Favian Alejandro Martn̕, Kevin Revier, Elizabeth Bittel, and Serena Goodridge

16. The invisible empire: latent imperialism in United States public opinion surveys / Daniel J. Patten and Josh R. Klein

Part V: Immigration, Trafficking, Atrocity Violence, And More

17. The leviathan: the role of the state in atrocity violence / Christopher W. Mullins

18. Unmasking harm: immigration, nonprofits, and state-corporate crime / Maya Pagni Barak

19. Superpower? More like super-predator: calculated kindness and the predatory nature of the United States' Special Immigrant Visa Program / Sarah Pedigo Kulzer

20. State criminality and human trafficking: are the "superhero" states really the villain? / Calli M. Cain

21. Donald Trump as the Houdini of state-organized crime: a snapshot of the unlawful and anti-constitutional president of the United States / Gregg Barak.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781035320288 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.