State crime in the global age
By: edited by William J. Chambliss, Raymond Michalowski and Ronald C. Kramer
Publisher: Willan Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cullompton, Devon; Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9781843927037; 9781843927044
Description: "Scholars, students and informed citizens concerned with the grave threats created by the misuses of state power will find valuable insights in State Crime in the Global Age." --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-293) and index.
Table of contents: title: In search of 'state and crime' in state crime studies  -- Raymond Michalowski; title: The centrality of empire in the study of state crime and violence  -- Peter Iadicola; title: Obligatory sacrifice and imperial projects  -- Frank Pearce; title: Toward a prospective criminology of state crime  -- David O. Friedrichs; title: Modern institutionalized torture as state-organized crime  -- Martha K. Huggins; title: War as corporate crime  -- Vincenzo Ruggiero; title: From Guernica to Hiroshima to Baghdad : the normalization of the terror bombing of civilians  -- Ronald C. Kramer; title: The neo-liberal state of exception in occupied Iraq  -- David Whyte; title: China's aid policy toward economically weakened states : a case of state criminality?  -- Dawn L. Rothe; title: Framing innocents : the wrongly convicted as victims of state harm  -- Saundra D. Westervelt and Kimberly J. Cook; title: Prosecutorial overcharging as state crime?  -- Lauren N. Lang; title: The politics of harm reduction policies  -- William J. Chambliss, Jonathan William Anderson and Tanya Whittle; title: The globalization of transitional justice  -- Elizabeth Stanley; title: The reason of state : theoretical inquiries and consequences for the criminology of state crime  -- Athanasios Chouliaras -- Epilogue :; title: toward a public criminology of state crime -- Ronald C. Kramer, Raymond Michalowski and William J. Chambliss.