What is state crime? This book sets out the parameters of state crime and highlights the complex issues involved. The authors provide a clear chapter-by-chapter assessment of state violence, corruption, state involvement in organised and corporate crime, avoidable 'natural' disasters, torture, criminal policing, war crimes and genocide.
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<br> Penny Green and Tony Ward put forward a powerful argument drawing from a range of disciplines including law, criminology, human rights, international relations and political science. They develop a theoretical approach to understanding the boundaries of state crime, employing the concepts of deviance and human rights. Making distinctive use of original research and using a variety of international case-studies, this compelling book offers a fresh and sophisticated approach to this controversial and difficult subject.
Questions the perametres of state crime in all its forms, from corruption and corporate crime to ‘natural’ disasters, torture, war crimes and genocide.
Preface
<br> 1. Defining States as Criminal
<br> 2. Corruption as State Crime
<br> 3. State-Corporate Crime
<br> 4. Natural Disaster as State Crime
<br> 5. Police Crime
<br> 6. Organised Crime and the ‘Deep State’
<br> 7. State Terror and Terrorism
<br> 8. Torture
<br> 9. War Crimes
<br> 10. Genocide
<br> 11. The Political Economy of State Crime
<br> 12. Every Crime in the Book: Iraq and its Liberators
<br> Notes
<br> References
<br> Index
von: Armando Lugo González, Nelson Raul Fajardo Marulanda, Rafael Jiménez Vega, Eusebio Avendaño Avendaño, Diego Armando Romero Pinedo, Manuel Humberto Restrepo Domínguez, Gustavo Tabares Ramírez, Sindicato de Profesores de la Univesidad Distrital