Market Criminology: State-Corporate Crime in the Petroleum Extraction Industry

ISBN-13: 9781138688131 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 172 str.

Ifeanyi Ezeonu

Opis

Building on original research into the petroleum industry and on the theory of crimes of globalization, this book introduces the concept of Market Criminology: the criminology of preventable market-generated harms and the criminogenic effects of the forces of the market in a neoliberal regime. Ifeanyi Ezeonu explores the ascendance of the fundamentalist form of market economy in Nigeria; the complicity of the state political and security apparatuses in the corporate expropriation of the country's petroleum resource wealth; the deleterious effects of this neoliberal architecture on the local population, as well as community resistance strategies over the years. This book offers a major contribution to research on state-corporate crime and the crimes of the powerful.

Spis treści

1. Introduction,  2. Commerce, Plunder and the Illegitimate Birth of the Nigerian State,  3. "In the Long Run we are all Dead": Historicizing our Journey to a Market Society,  4. Market Criminology: An Ontological Recalibration of a Discipline,  5. Petroleum Resources and the Plunder of the Niger Delta: Lessons on Market Criminology, 6. Public Security Challenges in the Niger Delta: The Catharsis of Community Resistance,  7. Conclusion: Extending the Periscope of Criminology to Market Rationality,  Bibliography

O autorze

Ifeanyi Ezeonu is Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Brock University, Canada.