This book provides an introduction to state crime, with a
particular focus on the UK.
The use of crime by the UK to achieve its policy and political
objectives is an underdeveloped aspect of academic study of
individual and institutional criminality, the exercise of political
power, public policy-making and political development. The book
provides an overview of definitional issues before exploring
possible examples of state crime in the UK and then considering why
state crime occurs and how it is investigated and
adjudicated.
State Crime is split into six sections in order to address a number
of key questions: what is state crime according to the literature?
What is a crime? What is the state? What are the drivers for the
State to commit a crime? What are the roles of the various
institutions of the State in being involved in state crime and
what, in terms of monitoring or investigating state crime or
unethical conduct, are the roles of those institutions, from the
police through to Parliament, responsible for holding governments
and state institutions to account?
Unusually for books on state crime, this book looks at a specific
country as the context within which to explore these issues.
Further, it not only looks at crime but also the structure of the
modern state and thus provides a balanced and rigorous perspective
with which to study the concept of state crime.
Overall, this book seeks to provide an introduction to state
crime for contemporary states which will facilitate the study of
such issues as part of mainstream academic study across a number of
disciplines.
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