"State-Corporate Crime is the most comprehensive articulation of an
important criminological concept and is a valuable contribution to
the literature of criminology."-David Friedrichs, University of
Scranton "This volume is a welcome addition for those scholars who
study the relationship between government and corporate
crime."-Gray Cavender, coauthor of Corporate Crime Under Attack:
The Fight to Criminalize Business Violence "This collection offers
thoughtful, provocative analyses of crimes and other wrongs
committed at the intersection of political and economic power. . .
. Few issues resonate as strongly as the ones addressed in
State-Corporate Crime."-Peter Yeager, Boston University Enron,
Haliburton, Exxon Valdez, "shock and awe." Despite growing
attention to crimes by those in positions of trust, crimes and
social harms in business and similar wrongdoing in government are
still often treated as fundamentally separate problems. In
State-Corporate Crime, Raymond J. Michalowski and Ronald C. Kramer
bring together fifteen essays to show that those in positions of
political and economic power frequently operate in collaboration,
and are often all too willing to sacrifice the well-being of the
many for the private profit and political advantage of the few.
Drawing on case studies including the explosion of the space
shuttle Challenger, Ford Explorer rollovers, the crash of Valujet
flight 592, nuclear weapons production, and war profiteering, the
essays bear frank witness to those who have suffered, those who
have died, and those who have contributed to the greatest human and
environmental devastations of our time. This book is a much needed
reminder that the most serious threats to public health, security,
and safety are not those petty crimes that appear nightly on local
news broadcasts, but rather are those that result from corruption
among the wealthiest and most powerful members of society. Raymond
J. Michalowski is the Arizona Regents Professor at Northern Arizona
University. Ronald C. Kramer is the director of the criminal
justice program and a professor of sociology at Western Michigan
University. A volume in the Critical Issues in Crime and Society
series, edited by Raymond J. Michalowski
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