State Crime - Doig, Alan
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This book provides an introduction to state crime, with a particular focus on the UK, where the use of crime to achieve policy and political objectives is an underdeveloped aspect of academic study. The book overviews the various definitional issues, before exploring possible examples of state crime in the UK, and considering why state crime occurs and how it is investigated and adjudicated. Questions addressed include: * what are state crimes? * how far does state crime require evidence of official policy, approved by those who are the leaders of the state, or state institutions? * who…mehr

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This book provides an introduction to state crime, with a particular focus on the UK, where the use of crime to achieve policy and political objectives is an underdeveloped aspect of academic study. The book overviews the various definitional issues, before exploring possible examples of state crime in the UK, and considering why state crime occurs and how it is investigated and adjudicated. Questions addressed include: * what are state crimes? * how far does state crime require evidence of official policy, approved by those who are the leaders of the state, or state institutions? * who exactly decides that this should be official policy? * how and who adjudges on such conduct?
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Alan Doig was Professor of Public Services Management at Liverpool Business School and Teesside Business School before being appointed in 2008 as Resident Advisor on the Council of Europe's Prevention of Corruption project in Turkey. He was then appointed as the UNODC UNCAC mentor for Thailand, finishing in 2010. He currently works for a number of international organisations and is a Visiting Professor at a UK University. He has published extensively on ethics, corruption, economic crime and politics; along with Corruption and Misconduct in Contemporary British Politics (1984) and Westminster Babylon (1990), State Crime completes his trilogy on aspects of sex, money and power in British politics. His last book was Fraud, published by Willan in 2006.