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State crime and immorality : the corrupting influence of the powerful /
This work examines the activities of UK and international 'role models' through the lens of state crime and social policy. Written by experts in the field of sociology and social policy, it provides a comprehensive discussion of state immorality and deviance generally and state crime in pa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Policy Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Defining the state and its institutions, allies and protagonists
- The state, corporations and organised crime
- Drugs and thugs: examples of organised crime, state collusion and limited responses
- The media as both an influential and a supportive arm of the state
- Beyond the borders: state terrorism from without and against the "other"
- Without and within: state crime in Northern Ireland (violence, collusion and the paramilitaries)
- Fighting "the enemy within": internal state terrorism, Argentina's "Dirty War" (1976-83) and the UK miners' strike (1984-85)
- Conclusion: the role, nature and control of state crime.