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1. This is the first textbook to bring together the related fields
of state crime, white collar crime, financial crime and
environmental crime. 2. As well as offering theoretical and
methodological insights, this book draws on international case
studies throughout. 3. This will be essential reading for the
growing number of modules on Crimes of the Powerful and also
important supplementary reading for modules on white collar crime,
state crime and green criminology.
1. This is the first textbook to bring together the related fields
of state crime, white collar crime, financial crime and
environmental crime. 2. As well as offering theoretical and
methodological insights, this book draws on international case
studies throughout. 3. This will be essential reading for the
growing number of modules on Crimes of the Powerful and also
important supplementary reading for modules on white collar crime,
state crime and green criminology.
State crime victimization often leaves a legacy of unrecognized
victims that are ignored, forgotten, or negated the right to be
labeled as such. Victims are often glossed over, as the focus is on
a state's actions or inactions rather than the subsequent
victimization and victims. Towards a Victimology of State Crime
serves to highlight the forgotten victims, processes and cases of
revictimization within a sociological, criminological framework.
Contributors include expert scholars of state crime and victimology
from North America, Europe, Africa, and Latin America to provide a
well-rounded focus that can address and penetrate the issues of
victims of state crime. This includes a diverse number of case
study examples of victims of state crime and the systems of control
that facilitate or impede addressing the needs of victims.
Additionally, with the inclusion of a section on controls, this
volume taps into an area that is often overlooked: the
international level of social control in relation to a victimology
of state criminality.
Millions of people have been victimized by the actions and
omissions of states and governments. This collection provides
expert analyses of such victimizations across the world, from
Europe, the United States, and Africa to New Zealand and South
America. Leading scholars in the area of state crime describe the
nature, extent, and distribution of state crime victimization, as
well as theoretical and practical paths for understanding,
explaining, and aiding victims of massive harms by governments.
Cases of state crime and state victimization are presented on
Brazilian, Native American, and New Zealand children, Somalian
Pirates, Columbian, South African, and Bosnian civilians, United
States immigrants, and war crime victimization in World War II.
Other chapters delve into formal and informal ways to address
victimization through the European Court of Human Rights, the
International Criminal Court, and provide analyses of justice
processes around the world. This anthology bridges the latest
thinking, theory and research in the fields of state crime and
victimology and provides a general resource concerning basic issues
related to victimization - particularly victims of state crime. As
such, it fills a major gap in the literature by providing the first
text and scholarly book focused solely on a victimology of state
crime. This book is essential reading for undergraduates,
postgraduates, socio-legal jurists and academics with an interest
in state crime and victimology.
Millions of people have been victimized by the actions and
omissions of states and governments. This collection provides
expert analyses of such victimizations across the world, from
Europe, the United States, and Africa to New Zealand and South
America. Leading scholars in the area of state crime describe the
nature, extent, and distribution of state crime victimization, as
well as theoretical and practical paths for understanding,
explaining, and aiding victims of massive harms by governments.
Cases of state crime and state victimization are presented on
Brazilian, Native American, and New Zealand children, Somalian
Pirates, Columbian, South African, and Bosnian civilians, United
States immigrants, and war crime victimization in World War II.
Other chapters delve into formal and informal ways to address
victimization through the European Court of Human Rights, the
International Criminal Court, and provide analyses of justice
processes around the world. This anthology bridges the latest
thinking, theory and research in the fields of state crime and
victimology and provides a general resource concerning basic issues
related to victimization - particularly victims of state crime. As
such, it fills a major gap in the literature by providing the first
text and scholarly book focused solely on a victimology of state
crime. This book is essential reading for undergraduates,
postgraduates, socio-legal jurists and academics with an interest
in state crime and victimology.
This book provides a concise but comprehensive review of the full
range of classic and contemporary theories of crime. With separate
chapters on the nature and use of criminological theory as well as
theoretical application, the authors render the difficult task of
explaining crime more understandable to the introductory student.
All of the main theories in criminology are reviewed including
classical and rational choice, biological, psychological, and
evolutionary, social structural, social process, critical, general,
and integrated approaches. Copious examples of the spirit of the
theories are supplied, many with a popular culture (e.g., film and
music) connection. The highly original final chapter, titled
'Putting Criminological Theory to Work, ' provides readers with an
integrated theoretical model that students can apply to virtually
any type of crime. The book is well suited for use in undergraduate
and graduate courses in criminology, criminal justice, and deviance
This book provides a concise but comprehensive review of the full
range of classic and contemporary theories of crime. With separate
chapters on the nature and use of criminological theory as well as
theoretical application, the authors render the difficult task of
explaining crime more understandable to the introductory student.
All of the main theories in criminology are reviewed including
classical and rational choice, biological, psychological, and
evolutionary, social structural, social process, critical, general,
and integrated approaches. Copious examples of the spirit of the
theories are supplied, many with a popular culture (e.g., film and
music) connection. The highly original final chapter, titled
'Putting Criminological Theory to Work, ' provides readers with an
integrated theoretical model that students can apply to virtually
any type of crime. The book is well suited for use in undergraduate
and graduate courses in criminology, criminal justice, and deviance
The criminological contributions of Richard Quinney have spanned
four decades and have spawned and energized both critical and
peacemaking intellectual and activist movements in the field of
Criminology. Quinney has been consistently recognized as one of a
small handful of seminal thinkers in the discipline. The
introduction illustrates how each chapter: has drawn inspiration
from the crime-related writings of this influential criminologist;
contains core assumptions of critical and peacemaking criminology;
has application for the development of transformative justice as an
alternative approach to the study of crime. Part 1 features
chapters generally falling within the parameters of critical
criminology. Here, critical analyses are directed toward: linkages
of capitalism and political economy to crime; state/corporate
crime; feminist concerns about moral conscience; views of crime and
justice among convict criminologists; prison as an industrial
complex. Part 2 exhibits chapters oriented toward the development
of peacemaking criminology. As such, peacemaking criminology is
explored in regard to: an emergent theoretical model; a synthesis
of Quinney's peacemaking-oriented writings; women's crime and
mothers in prisons; teaching and learning about justice through a
non-violent perspective; advocating justice reforms on the
internet; its future directions in terms of theory and application.
In this provocative book, the authors outline the crimes committed
by the state under the protective shield of national security
including the shaping of foreign policy around the threat of
nuclear hostility, the subjection of Americans to human radiation
experiments, and the massive environmental contamination caused by
radioactive waste.
This insightful work clearly shows that the threats posed by
nuclear states extend far beyond the dangers of nuclear war. The
authors argue convincingly that criminologists, government
officials, and the general public have for too long avoided and
neglected the illegal aspects of nuclear weapons policies in
particular, and the larger issue of state crime in general.
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