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    State Crime
    Current Perspectives

    Dawn Rothe (Edited by), Christopher Mullins (Edited by), M. Cherif Bassiouni (Introduction by), William Chambliss (Foreword by), Gregg Barak (Contributions by), Michael Bohlander (Contributions by), David Friedrichs (Contributions by), Roelof Haveman (Contributions by), Kara Hoofnagle (Contributions by), Peter Iadicola (Contributions by), David Kauzlarich (Contributions by), Ronald C. Kramer (Contributions by), Raymond J. Michalowski (Contributions by), Stephan Parmentier (Contributions by), Jeffrey Ian Ross (Contributions by), Elmar Weitkamp (Contributions by)

    9780813549019

    Paperback / softback, published 13 October 2010

    368 pages
    22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.539 kg

    "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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    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.

    Foreword / 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
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