State Crime and Immorality: The Corrupting Influence of the Powerful

by Mark Monaghan, Simon Prideaux

Overview

This book begins with the concept of the ideal state as a single, functioning whole that ensures uniformity in the name of legitimacy. It then goes on to show the many ways that states fall away from the ideal, often because of the actions of the powerful and connected—and the consequences of those failures. Looking at everything from invasions of other nations to consolidated media power, State Crime and Immorality is the first book to draw a clear line between conventional criminality and organized state crime and to directly confront the problem of illegitimate actions among the elite in society and government.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781447316756
Publisher:	Policy Press at the Univ of Bristol
Publication date:	03/15/2016
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Mark Monaghan is a lecturer in sociology, social policy, and crime at the University of Leeds, where Simon Prideaux is associate professor of social policy, disability, and crime.

Table of Contents

List of tables
About the authors
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Defining the State, its Institutions, Allies and Protagonists
3. The State, Corporations and Organised Crime
4. Drugs and Thugs: Examples of Organised Crime, State Collusion and Limited Responses
5. The Media as Both an Influential and Supportive Arm of the State
6. Beyond the Borders: State Terrorism from Without and Against the ‘Other’
7. Without and Within: State Crime in Northern Ireland (Violence, Collusion and the Paramilitaries)
8. Fighting the Enemy Within: Internal State Terrorism, Argentina’s ‘Dirty War’ (1976-83), the UK Miners’
Strike (1984-5) and the ‘Battle’
9. Conclusion: the role, nature and control of state crime 
References
Index

Editorial Reviews

A provocative and stimulating book and one that should be essential reading for anybody wanting a better understanding of the complex interplay between politics, the media, business, and criminal enterprise.

James Windle