States and illegal practices
By: edited by Josiah McC. Heyman.
Contributors: Heyman, Josiah McC. 1958-
Publisher: Berg
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
Subjects: Sociological jurisprudence -- Congresses; State, The -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: "This book started with a conference on states and illegal networks, held at Tarrytown, New York, on 5-8 June 1997"--P. vi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Gift of James Loucky.
Table of contents: title: States and illegal practices: an overview -- Josiah McC. Heyman and Alan Smart; title: Brigandage, piracy, capitalism, and state-formation: transnational crime from a historical world-systems perspective -- Thomas W. Gallant; title: State and shadow state in northern Peru circa 1900: illegal political networks and the problem of state boundaries -- David Nugent; title: Predatory rule and illegal economic practices -- Alan Smart; title: Requiem for a drug lord: state and commodity in the career of Khun Sa -- Alfred W. McCoy; title: Is transparency possible? the political-economic and epistemological implications of Cold War conspiracies and subterfuge in Italy -- Jane Schneider and Peter Schneider; title: Russian protection rackets and the appropriation of law and order -- Caroline Humphrey; title: Neoliberalism, environmentalism, and scientific knowledge: redefining use rights in the Gulf of California fisheries -- Marcela Vásquez-León; title: Adolescent violence, state processes, and the local context of moral panic -- Mercer L. Sullivan and Barbara Miller; title: State escalation of force: a Vietnam/US-Mexico border analogy-- Josiah McC. Heyman.