The Routledge International Handbook of the Crimes of the Powerful

Herausgeber: Barak, Gregg

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 556
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 178mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1134g
• ISBN-13: 9780415741262
• ISBN-10: 0415741262
• Artikelnr.: 40139190

Autorenporträt

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 27th 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 4th edition of Class, Race, Gender, and Crime: The Social Realities of Justice in America (2015) with Paul Leighton and Allison Cotton.

Inhaltsangabe

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.