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State crime in the global age / edited by William J. Chambliss, Raymond Michalowski and Ronald C. Kramer.

Title
State crime in the global age / edited by William J. Chambliss, Raymond Michalowski and Ronald C. Kramer.
Publication
Cullompton, Devon ; Portland, Or. : Willan Pub., c2010.

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Additional Authors
  • Chambliss, William J.
  • Michalowski, Raymond J.
  • Kramer, Ronald C.
Description
xiv, 306 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
"Scholars, students and informed citizens concerned with the grave threats created by the misuses of state power will find valuable insights in State Crime in the Global Age." --Book Jacket.
Subject
  • Political crimes and offenses
  • Political corruption
  • Political atrocities
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-293) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
In search of 'state and crime' in state crime studies / Raymond Michalowski -- The centrality of empire in the study of state crime and violence / Peter Iadicola -- Obligatory sacrifice and imperial projects / Frank Pearce -- Toward a prospective criminology of state crime / David O. Friedrichs -- Modern institutionalized torture as state-organized crime / Martha K. Huggins -- War as corporate crime / Vincenzo Ruggiero -- From Guernica to Hiroshima to Baghdad : the normalization of the terror bombing of civilians / Ronald C. Kramer -- The neo-liberal state of exception in occupied Iraq / David Whyte -- China's aid policy toward economically weakened states : a case of state criminality? / Dawn L. Rothe -- Framing innocents : the wrongly convicted as victims of state harm / Saundra D. Westervelt and Kimberly J. Cook -- Prosecutorial overcharging as state crime? / Lauren N. Lang -- The politics of harm reduction policies / William J. Chambliss, Jonathan William Anderson and Tanya Whittle -- The globalization of transitional justice / Elizabeth Stanley -- The reason of state : theoretical inquiries and consequences for the criminology of state crime / Athanasios Chouliaras -- Epilogue : toward a public criminology of state crime / Ronald C. Kramer, Raymond Michalowski and William J. Chambliss.
ISBN
  • 9781843927037 (pbk.)
  • 1843927039 (pbk.)
  • 9781843927044 (hbk.)
  • 1843927047 (hbk.)
LCCN
^^2010286468
OCLC
502034766
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library