State Crime

ISBN-13: 9781843923077 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 280 str.

Opis

This book provides an introduction to state crime, with a particular focus on the UK. The use of crime by the UK to achieve its policy and political objectives is an underdeveloped aspect of academic study of individual and institutional criminality, the exercise of political power, public policy-making and political development. The book overviews the various definitional issues before exploring possible examples of state crime in the UK and then considering why state crime occurs and how it is investigated and adjudicated. The questions that this book seeks to address are what are state crimes, or crimes by those employed by the state or working on behalf of the state? How far does state crime require evidence of official policy, approved by those who are the leaders of the state, or state institutions, with their authority to authorise, support, and protect those who help it achieve its objectives officially or unofficially, including the commission of crime? Further, what is stat

Recenzje

'This book successfully provides the reader with an introduction to the complex issue of state crime.  It is a topic that examines the intersection of law, politics and criminology.  Doig reveals that state crime is an emerging, inchoate and contested area of study.  However, it is a topic that is important as it draws criminology into addressing wider issues of power and the uses of crime and crime control.'
-Jamie Bennett, Governor of HMP Grendon & Springhill, in Prison Service Journal no 203

Spis treści

1. The issue of British state crime: introduction 2. Themes from the state crime literature: labels 3. Themes from the state crime literature: motives 4. What is a state in the UK context? 5. State crime: what is a crime in the UK context? 6. Not on the label? State crime: opportunities and motives in a liberal democratic state 7. Controlling state crime and state crime 8. Conclusion: three issues in rethinking state crime