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government accountability
Governmental Crime
Human Rights
International Criminal
International Criminal Court
International Criminal Law
international legal frameworks
Ira Sharkansky
Jeffrey Ian Ross
Jeffrey Lan Ross
Ken Menzies
Kenneth D. Tunnell
Leon Hurwitz
Local Democratic Control
Luis F. Molina*
methods to prevent state-sponsored violence
Military Crimes
Moderate Physical Pressure
Morton Thiokol
Natasha J. Cabrera
National Security Organizations
North American Free Trade Agreement
Pete Gill
policy reform strategies
Political Offense Exception
Political White Collar Crime
Preventing State Crime
Raymond A. Zilinskas
Security Intelligence Agencies
Social Auditors
State Corporate Crime
State Crime
State Crime Literature
Term State Crime
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White Collar Crime
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- ISBN 9781138521247
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 02 Aug 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Academic research on state crime has focused on the illegal actions of individuals and organizations (i.e., syndicates and corporations). Interchangeably labeled governmental crime, delinquency, illegality, or lawlessness, official deviance and misconduct, crimes of obedience, and human rights violations, state crime has largely been considered in relation to insurgent violence or threats to national security. Generally, it has been seen as a phenomenon endemic to authoritarian countries in transitional and lesser developed contexts. We need look no further than today's headlines to see the evidence of state crime. Rwanda, where government troops massacred countless Hutus and Tutsis, governmental atrocities in Kosovo, at the hands of the Yugoslavian Army, and East Timor where both individuals and property have been decimated, largely perpetrated by the Indonesian military.The study of how to control state crime has been difficult. There are definitional, conceptual, theoretical, and methodological problems, as well as difficulties in designing of practical methods to abolish, combat, control or resist this type of behavior. Jeffrey Ian Ross reviews these shortcomings, then develops a preliminary model of ways to control state crime. His intention is stimulating scholarly research and debate, but also encouraging progressive-minded policymakers and practitioners who work for governmental and nongovernmental organizations. The hope is that they will reflect upon the methods they advocate or use to minimize state transgressions. This new edition will be of compelling interest to students of political science and criminology, as well as general readers interested in human rights, state crime, and world affairs.
Jeffrey Ian Ross is professor in the School of Criminology at the University of Baltimore. Ross has researched, written, and lectured primarily on corrections, policing, political crime, state crime, crimes of the powerful, violence, street culture, and crime and justice in American Indian communities for over two decades. His work has appeared in many academic journals and books, as well as popular media. In 2018, Ross was given the Hans W. Mattick Award, "for an individual who has made a distinguished contribution to the field of Criminology & Criminal Justice practice," from the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 2020, he received the John Howard Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences’ Division of Corrections.
