The Routledge International Handbook of the Crimes of the Powerful

ISBN-13: 9780415741262 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 556 str.

Gregg Barak

Opis

Across the world, most people are well aware of ordinary criminal harms to person and property. Often committed by the powerless and poor, these individualized crimes are catalogued in the statistics collected annually by the FBI and by similar agencies in other developed nations. In contrast, the more harmful and systemic forms of injury to person and property committed by powerful and wealthy individuals, groups, and national states are neither calculated by governmental agencies nor annually reported by the mass media. As a result, most citizens of the world are unaware of the routinized "crimes of the powerful," even though they are more likely to experience harms and injuries from these types of organized offenses than they are from the atomized offenses of the powerless.

Research on the crimes of the powerful brings together several areas of criminological focus, involving organizational and institutional networks of powerful people that commit crimes against workers, marketplaces, taxpayers and political systems, as well as acts of torture, terrorism, and genocide. This international handbook offers a comprehensive, authoritative and structural synthesis of these interrelated topics of criminological concern. It also explains why the crimes of the powerful are so difficult to control.

Edited by internationally acclaimed criminologist Gregg Barak, this book reflects the state of the art of scholarly research, covering all the key areas including corporate, global, environmental, and state crimes. The handbook is a perfect resource for students and researchers engaged with explaining and controlling the crimes of the powerful, domestically and internationally.

Spis treści

Introduction: on the invisibility and neutralization of the crimes of the powerful and their victims, Gregg Barak  Part I: Culture, ideology and the crimes of the powerful  1. Crimes of the powerful and the definition of crime, David Friedrichs  2. Operationalizing "organizational violence", Gary S. Green and Huisheng Shou  3. Justifying the crimes of the powerful, Vincenzo Ruggiero  4. Corporate criminals constructing white collar crime—or why there is no corporate crime on USA Network’s White Collar series, Carrie L. Buist and Paul Leighton  Part II: Crimes of globalization  5. Capital and catharsis in the Nigerian petroleum extraction industry: lessons on the crimes of globalization, Ifeanyi Ezeonu  6. State and corporate drivers of global dysnomie: horrendous crimes and the law, Anamika Twyman- Ghoshal and Nikos Passas  7. Truth, justice and the Walmart way: consequences of a retailing behemoth, Lloyd Klein and Steve Lang  8. Human trafficking: examining global responses, Marie Segrave and Sanja Milivojevic  9. Globalization, sovereignty and crime: a philosophical processing, Kingsley Ejiogu  Part III: Corporate crimes  10. Corporate crimes and the problems of enforcement, Ronald Burns  11. Corporate-financial crime scandals: a comparative analysis of the collapses of Insull and Enron, Brandon Sullivan  12. Corporate social responsibility, corporate surveillance and neutralizing corporate resistance: on the commodification of risk-based policing, Hans Krause Hansen and Julie Uldam  13. Walmart’s sustainability initiative: greening capitalism as a form of corporate irresponsibility, Steve Lang and Lloyd Klein  Part IV: Environmental crimes  14. Climate change, ecocide and the crimes of the powerful, Rob White  15. Privatization, pollution and power: a green criminological analysis of present and future global water crises, Bill McClanahan, Avi Brisman, and Nigel South  16. Unfettered fracking: a critical examination of hydraulic fracturing in the United States, Jacquelynn Doyon and Elizabeth Bradshaw  17. The international impact of electronic waste: a case study of Western Africa, Jacquelynn Doyon  Part V: Financial crimes  18. Bad banks: recurrent criminogenic conditions in the U.S. commercial banking industry, Robert Tillman  19. Financial misrepresentation and fraudulent manipulation: SEC settlements with Wall Street firms in the wake of the economic meltdown, David Shichor  20. A comprehensive framework for conceptualizing financial frauds and victimization, Mary Dodge and Skylar Steele  Part VI: State crimes  21. Transnational institutional torturers: state crime, ideology and the role of France’s savior-faire in Argentina’s dirty war, 1976-1983, Melanie Collard  22. Para-state crime and plural legalities in Colombia, Thomas MacManus and Tony Ward  23. Australian border policing and the production of state harm, Mike Grewcock  24. Gendered forms of state crime: the case of state perpetrated violence against women, Victoria Collins  Part VII: State-corporate crimes  25. Blacking out the Gulf: state-corporate environmental crime and the response to the BP oil spill, Elizabeth Bradshaw  26. Collaborate state and corporate crime: fraud, unions and elite power in Mexico, Maya Barak  27. Mining as state-corporate crime: the case of AngloGold Ashanti in Colombia, Damián Zaitch and Laura Gutiérrez-Gómez  Part VIII: State-routinized crimes  28. Organized crimes in a transitional economy: the resurgence of the criminal underworld in contemporary China, Peng Wang  29. Institutionalized abuse of police power: how public policing condones and legitimates police corruption in North America, Marilyn Corsianos  30. The appearances and realities of corruption in Greece: the cases of MAYO and Siemens AG, Effi Lambropoulou  Part IX: Failing to control the crimes of the powerful  31. Postconviction and powerful offenders: the white collar offender as professional ex, Ben Hunter and Stephen Farrall  32. Business ethics as a means of controlling abusive corporate behavior, Jay Kennedy  33. Ag-gag laws and farming crimes against animals, Doris Lin  34. Genocide and controlling the crimes of the powerful, Augustine Brannigan  35. Controlling state crime and alternative reactions, Jeffrey Ian Ross  36. Hacking the state: hackers, technology, control, resistance, and the state, Kevin F. Steinmetz and Jurg Gerber  37. (Liberal) democracy means surveillance: on security, control and the surveillance techno-fetish, Dawn Rothe and Travis Linnemann  38. Limiting financial capital and regulatory control as non-penal alternatives to Wall Street looting and high-risk securities, Gregg Barak.

O autorze

Gregg Barak is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Eastern Michigan University and the former Visiting Distinguished Professor in the College of Justice & Safety at Eastern Kentucky University. In 2003 he became the 27^th Fellow of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and in 2007 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Critical Division of the American Society of Criminology. Barak is the author and/or editor of 20 books, including the award winning titles Gimme Shelter: A Social History of Homelessness in Contemporary America (1991) and Theft of a Nation: Wall Street Looting and Federal Regulatory Colluding (2012). His most recent book is the 4^th edition of Class, Race, Gender, and Crime: The Social Realities of Justice in America (2015) with Paul Leighton and Allison Cotton.