Description
Book Synopsis 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.
"An admirable collection of case studies by leading scholars that illuminate the historical and modern contours of state crime."
-- Barbara Perry * University of Ontario Institute of Technology *
"Given recent highly injurious acts committed by governments around the world, this riveting book is essential reading for scholars, students, activists, and policy makers. A timely and much needed contribution to the field."
-- Walter DeKeseredy * author of Contemporary Critical Criminology *
"There has been a paucity of research on state crime, but this volume makes an important contribution to the literature and should not only stimulate further research on state crime, but also contribute to social policies that seek to reduce it. Highly recommended."
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Table of ContentsForeword / William J. Chambliss
Introduction : Crimes of state and other forms of collective group violence by nonstate actors / M. Cherif Bassiouni
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 : a history of conflict and state crime / 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 : what I would have done differently / Jeffrey Ian Ross
Complementary and alternative domestic responses to state crime / Dawn L. Rothe
The fairness of Gacaca / Roelof H. Haveman and Alphonse Muleefu
Assassination of regime elites versus collateral civilian damage / 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
