Thomas MacManus

State-Corporate Crime and the Commodification of Victimhood (eBook, ePUB)

The Toxic Legacy of Trafigura's Ship of Death

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The book highlights the continuing impunity enjoyed by corporations for large scale crimes, helps readers understand the difficulties in sanctioning such crime and the failure of civil society, and develops a theoretical framework of state crime.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351210188
• Artikelnr.: 54007857

Autorenporträt

Thomas MacManus is a Research Fellow and concentrates on the crimes of the powerful. He is based at the International State Crime Initiative (ISCI, statecrime.org) in the Department of Law at Queen Mary University of London (www.law.qmul.ac.uk/). He is admitted as an Attorney-at-Law (New York) and solicitor (Ireland). He is an editor in chief of State Crime Journal, and joint editor of Amicus Journal: Assisting Lawyers for Justice on Death Row. He is a director of the Colombia Caravana (www.colombiancaravana.org.uk/).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Applying a Criminological Framework 2. State-Corporate
Crime: Origins of the 'Ship of Death' 3. The Probo Koala Arrives at Abidjan
4. The Development of the State of Ivory Coast 5. Explanations for Impunity
6. Civil Society's Role 7. Researching Civil Society in Ivory Coast 8.
Organisational Crime and the 'Commodification of Victimhood' 9. Cover-up
and Denial: The Battle in Britain 10. Conclusion