Crimes of States and Powerful Elites - A Collection of Case Studies

A collection of case studies investigating the crimes of the powerful, the social harms caused and the perpetuation of inequalities through lack of prosecution.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Introduction, Claudia Radiven and Simon Prideaux; Chapter One Disasters in Aberfan and Grenfell, Claudia Radiven and Simon Prideaux; Chapter Two Medico: Big Pharma and the Flint Water Crisis, Claudia Radiven and Simon Prideaux; Chapter Three Genocide: The Rohingya and Forced Sterilisation of Women of Colour in the United States, Claudia Radiven and Simon Prideaux; Chapter Four State Crime, Corporate Crime and Organised Crime in the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and the Congo, Claudia Radiven and Simon Prideaux; Chapter Five Organised Crime: County Lines in the United Kingdom and the Problem of Bosnian 'Peacekeepers', Claudia Radiven and Simon Prideaux; Chapter Six Colonial Crimes: The Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand and Residential Schools in Canada, Claudia Radiven and Simon Prideaux; Chapter Seven Internment: Yarl's Wood and the Magdalene Laundries, Claudia Radiven and Simon Prideaux; Index.

About the author

Claudia Radiven is a final year PhD student at the University of Leeds researching de-radicalisation and colonial racial governance in the UK.

Simon Prideaux is an assistant professor of social welfare and crime in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds. 

Summary

A collection of case studies investigating the crimes of the powerful, the social harms caused and the perpetuation of inequalities through lack of prosecution.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Prideaux, Simon Radiven Prideaux, Claudia Prideaux Radiven
• Assisted by: Simon Prideaux (Editor), Prideaux Simon (Editor), Claudia Radiven (Editor)
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781785279874
• ISBN: 978-1-78527-987-4
• No. of pages: 236
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Political Science, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, War Crimes, Crime and criminology, Genocide and ethnic cleansing, Violence and abuse in society