Urbanisation has long been a central concern for criminology, particularly its relationship with crime trends, security and policing. What is missing from the debates however is a criminological analysis of the illicit transactions that form an integral part of the process of urbanisation. This book takes as its focus the complex land frauds, illicit commercial transactions, forced displacements, residential demolitions, networks of organised violence, and state-corporate actors, which illicitly stimulate new urban agglomerations, in addition to the communities of resistance that emerge in...

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...

A fundamental problem within state crime scholarship surrounds the way in which state violence and corruption come to be defined and labelled as criminal, since states rarely criminalise their own activities. Should 'crime' be conceptualized as a legal construct - something defined and punished by domestic and international courts - or is it better understood as a violation of social norms that may or may not reflect legal definitions?
Building on four years of international field research in Turkey, Tunisia, Burma/Myanmar, Colombia, Kenya and Papua New Guinea, this book considers how...

Frank Pearce was one of the first scholars, if not the first, to use the term "crimes of the powerful." His ground-breaking book of the same name provided insightful critiques of liberal orthodox criminology, particularly in relation to labelling theory and symbolic interactionism, and made important contributions to Marxist understandings of the complex relations between crime, law and the state in the reproduction of the capitalist social order. Coverage of crimes of the powerful had largely been neglected in crime and deviance studies, but there is now an important and growing body of...

Can we understand torture my focusing on the torture chamber or even on the states in which it is practiced, or do we have to consider the wider political context in which it is embedded? This is the central question of this book which explores concepts of state crime for understanding and responding to the indirect use of torture by external nation states.
Drawing on the cooperation between France and Argentina in the Dirty War, this book explores the transnational institutionalisation of torture and offers a detailed examination of the exportation of torture techniques and training...