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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.
List of contents
Introduction to the Second Edition Foreword Austin T. Turk Acknowledgments Controlling State Crime: Toward an Integrated Structural Model Jeffrey Ian Ross A State Action May Be Nasty But is Not Likely to Be a Crime Ira Sharkansky State Crime or Governmental Crime: Making Sense of the Conceptual Confusion David O. Friedrichs Controlling State Crimes by National Security Agencies Pete Gill Controlling Crimes by the Military Jeffrey Ian Ross State Crime by the Police and Its Control Ken Menzies Control and Prevention of Crimes Committed by State-Supported Educational Institutions Natasha J. Cabrera Crimes of the Capitalist State Against Labor Kenneth D. Tunnell Preventing State Crimes Against the Environment During Military Operations: The 1977 Environmental Modification Treaty Raymond A. Zilinskas International State-Sponsored Organizations to Control State Crime: The European Convention on Human Rights Leon Hurwitz A New Role for the International Court of Justice: Adjudicator of International and State Transnational Crimes Barbara M. Yarnold Can States Commit Crimes? The Limits of Formal International Law Luis F. Molina Eliminating State Crime by Abolishing the State Brian Martin The Future of Controlling State Crime: Where Do We Go from Here? Jeffrey Ian Ross Contributors Index
About the author
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.?
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Academic research on state crime has focused on the illegal actions of individuals and organizations (i
