State Crime: Current Perspectives

Published by Rutgers University Press 2010

State Crime

Current Perspectives

Edited by: Dawn Rothe and Christopher Mullins
With contributions by: M. Cherif Bassiouni , Gregg Barak , Michael Bohlander , David Friedrichs , Roelof Haveman , Kara Hoofnagle , Peter Iadicola , David Kauzlarich , Ronald C. Kramer , Raymond J. Michalowski , Stephan Parmentier , Jeffrey Ian Ross and Elmar Weitkamp
Preface by: William Chambliss

In the series Critical Issues in Crime and Society

https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813550237

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About this book

Current media and political discourse on crime has long ignored crimes committed by States themselves, despite their greater financial and human toll. For the past two decades, scholars have examined how and why States violate their own laws and international law and explored what can be done to reduce or prevent these injustices. Through a collection of essays by leading scholars in the field, State Crime offers a set of cases exemplifying state criminality along with various methods for controlling governmental transgressions. With topics ranging from crimes of aggression to nuclear weapons to the construction and implementation of social controls, this volume is an indispensable resource for those who examine the behavior of States and those who study crime in its varied forms.

Reviews

"An admirable collection of case studies by leading scholars that illuminate the historical and modern contours of state crime."

— Barbara Perry, University of Ontario Institute of Technology

"Given recent highly injurious acts committed by governments around the world, this riveting book is essential reading for scholars, students, activists, and policy makers. A timely and much needed contribution to the field."

— Walter DeKeseredy, author of Contemporary Critical Criminology

"There has been a paucity of research on state crime, but this volume makes an important contribution to the literature and should not only stimulate further research on state crime, but also contribute to social policies that seek to reduce it. Highly recommended."

— Choice

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Foreword Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction: Crimes of State and Other Forms of Collective Group Violence by Nonstate Actors M. Cherif Bassiouni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Crimes of the State
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Chapter 1. Revisiting Crimes by the Capitalist State Gregg Barak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Chapter 2. The Crime of the Last Century—And of This Century? David O. Friedrichs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Chapter 3. Nuclear Weapons, International Law, and the Normalization of State Crime Ronald C. Kramer and David Kauzlarich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	68
Chapter 4. Empire and Exceptionalism: The Bush Administration’s Criminal War against Iraq Ronald C. Kramer and Raymond J. Michalowski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
Chapter 5. Do Empires Commit State Crime? Peter Iadicola Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
Chapter 6. Burundi: A History of Conflict and State Crime Kara Hoofnagle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
Chapter 7. Legal Precedent, Jurisprudence, and State Crime: Pinochet and Crimes against Humanity Dawn L. Rothe and Michael Bohlander Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
Part II. Controlling State Crime
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Chapter 8. Reinventing Controlling State Crime and Varieties of State Crime and Its Control: What I Would Have Done Differently Jeffrey Ian Ross Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Chapter 9. Complementary and Alternative Domestic Responses to State Crime Dawn L. Rothe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
Chapter 10. The Fairness of Gacaca Roelof H. Haveman and Alphonse Muleefu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Chapter 11. Assassination of Regime Elites versus Collateral Civilian Damage Michael Bohlander and Dawn L. Rothe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Chapter 12. How to Restore Justice in Serbia? A Closer Look at Peoples’ Opinions about Postwar Reconciliation Stephan Parmentier, Marta Valiñas and Elmar Weitekamp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	262
Chapter 13. The Current Status and Role of the International Criminal Court Christopher W. Mullins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321

Language: English
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 368

eBook

Published: October 13, 2010
ISBN: 9780813550237