Synopses & Reviews
What is state crime? This book sets out the parameters of state crime and highlights the complex issues involved. The authors provide a clear chapter-by -chapter assessment of state violence, corruption, state involvement in organised and corporate crime, avoidable ‘natural disasters, torture, criminal policing, war crimes and genocide.Penny Green and Tony Ward put forward a powerful argument drawing from a range of disciplines including law, criminology, human rights, international relations and political science. They develop a theoretical approach to understanding the boundaries of state crime, employing the concepts of deviance and human rights. Making distinctive use of original research and using a variety of international case-studies, this compelling book offers a fresh and sophisticated approach to this controversial and difficult subject.
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Questions the perametres of state crime in all its forms, from corruption and corporate crime to ‘natural disasters, torture, war crimes and genocide.
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Shows how transnational corporations use lobby groups to shape EU policy. New updated edition
About the Author
Ron Keith is Professor of China Studies, Department of International Business and Asian Studies, Griffith University, Australia. He is the author of China as a Rising World Power and its Response to Globalization (2005), The Diplomacy of Zhou Enlai (1989) and (with Zhiqiu Lin) New Crime in China: Public Order and Human Rights (2006).
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Defining States as Criminal
2. Corruption as State Crime
3. State-Corporate Crime
4. Natural Disaster as State Crime
5. Police Crime
6. Organised Crime and the ‘Deep State
7. State Terror and Terrorism
8. Torture
9. War Crimes
10. Genocide
11. The Political Economy of State Crime
12. Every Crime in the Book: Iraq and its Liberators
Notes
References
Index