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State Crime in the Global Age.
State Crime in the Global Age brings together original writings from leading scholars in the field to explore the many ways that the use and abuse of state power results in grave social harms that outweigh, by far, the consequences of ordinary street crime. The topics covered include the crimes of e...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; State Crime in the Global Age; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Figures and tables; Abbreviations; Notes on contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction; Part One: Framing State Crime; 2 In search of 'state and crime' in state crime studies; 3 The centrality of empire in the study of state crime and violence; 4 Obligatory sacrifice and Imperial projects; 5 Toward a prospective criminology of state crime; Part Two: The Brutal Realities of State Crime; 6 Modern institutionalized torture as state-organized crime; 7 War as corporate crime.
- 8 From Guernica to Hiroshima to Baghdad: the normalization of the terror bombing of civilians9 The neo-liberal state of exception in occupied Iraq; 10 China's aid policy toward economically weakened states: a case of state criminality?; 11 Framing innocents: the wrongly convicted as victims of state harm; 12 Prosecutorial overcharging as state crime?; Part Three: Responding to State Crime; 13 The politics of harm reduction policies; 14 The globalization of transitional justice; 15 The reason of state: theoretical inquiries and consequences for the criminology of state crime.
- 16 Epilogue: toward a public criminology of state crimeReferences; Index.