State Crime: Current Perspectives

by Dawn Rothe (Editor), Christopher Mullins (Editor), M. Cherif Bassiouni (Introduction), William Chambliss (Foreword by), Gregg Barak (Contribution by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813549019
Publisher:	Rutgers University Press
Publication date:	10/13/2010
Series:	Critical Issues in Crime and Society
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Dawn L. Rothe is an assistant professor of criminology at Old Dominion University. She is the author of State Criminality: The Crime of All Crimes, Symbolic Gestures and the Generation of Global Social Control, and coauthor with Christopher W. Mullins of Blood, Power, and Bedlam: Violations of International Criminal Law in Post-Colonial Africa.

Christopher W. Mullins is an assistant professor of criminology and criminal justice at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He has authored or coauthored several books including Holding Your Square: Masculinities, Streetlife, and Violence.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

"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."

author of Contemporary Critical Criminology - Walter DeKeseredy

"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."

Choice

"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

"An admirable collection of case studies by leading scholars that illuminate the historical and modern contours of state crime."

University of Ontario Institute of Technology - Barbara Perry

"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

"An admirable collection of case studies by leading scholars that illuminate the historical and modern contours of state crime."

Barbara Perry

"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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