This book offers a pioneering window into the elusive workings of state-corporate crime within the mining industry. It follows a campaign of resistance organised by indigenous activists on the island of Bougainville, who struggled to close a Rio Tinto owned copper mine, and investigates the subsequent state-corporate response, which led to the shocking loss of some 10,000 lives.
Drawing on internal records and interviews with senior officials, Kristian Lasslett examines how an articulation of capitalist growth mediated through patrimonial politics, imperial state-power, large-scale...

This book offers a pioneering window into the elusive workings of state-corporate crime within the mining industry. It follows a campaign of resistance organised by indigenous activists on the island of Bougainville, who struggled to close a Rio Tinto owned copper mine, and investigates the subsequent state-corporate response, which led to the shocking loss of some 10,000 lives.
Drawing on internal records and interviews with senior officials, Kristian Lasslett examines how an articulation of capitalist growth mediated through patrimonial politics, imperial state-power, large-scale...

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...