State crime in the global age

State crime in the global age - Portland Willan 2010 - xiv,306p. ill. ; 24 cm.

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

In search of 'state and crime' in state crime studies / The centrality of empire in the study of state crime and violence / Obligatory sacrifice and imperial projects / Toward a prospective criminology of state crime / Modern institutionalized torture as state-organized crime / War as corporate crime / From Guernica to Hiroshima to Baghdad : the normalization of the terror bombing of civilians / The neo-liberal state of exception in occupied Iraq / China's aid policy toward economically weakened states : a case of state criminality? / Framing innocents : the wrongly convicted as victims of state harm / Prosecutorial overcharging as state crime? / The politics of harm reduction policies / The globalization of transitional justice / The reason of state : theoretical inquiries and consequences for the criminology of state crime / toward a public criminology of state crime / Raymond Michalowski -- Peter Iadicola -- Frank Pearce -- David O. Friedrichs -- Martha K. Huggins -- Vincenzo Ruggiero -- Ronald C. Kramer -- David Whyte -- Dawn L. Rothe -- Saundra D. Westervelt and Kimberly J. Cook -- Lauren N. Lang -- William J. Chambliss, Jonathan William Anderson and Tanya Whittle -- Elizabeth Stanley -- Athanasios Chouliaras -- Ronald C. Kramer, Raymond Michalowski and William J. Chambliss. Epilogue :

9781843927037

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Political crimes and offenses.
Political corruption.
Political atrocities.

HV6254 / .S73 2010

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