An Introduction to Political Crime

ISBN-13: 9781847426796 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 224 str.

Jeffrey Ian Ross

Opis

Provides comprehensive and contemporary analysis of political crime addressing violent and nonviolent crimes committed by and against the state (for example: political corruption, illegal domestic surveillance, and human rights violations) in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and other advanced industrialized democracies since the 1960s.

Spis treści

Introduction; Theoretical explanations of political crime; Oppositional political crimes; Nonviolent oppositional political crimes; Violent oppositional political crimes: terrorism; State crime; Political corruption; Illegal domestic surveillance; Human rights violations; State violence; State-corporate crime; Conclusion: controlling oppositional and state crime.