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Informationen zum Autor Rothe, Dawn Klappentext Current media and political discourse on crime has long ignored crimes committed by States themselves! despite their greater financial and human toll. For two decades! scholars have examined how and why States violate their own laws and international law and explored what can be done to reduce or prevent these injustices. Through essays by leading scholars! State Crime offers a set of cases exemplifying state criminality along with various methods for controlling governmental transgressions. It is an indispensable resource for those who examine the behavior of States and those who study crime in its varied forms. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword / William J. Chambliss Introduction : Crimes of state and other forms of collective group violence by nonstate actors / M. Cherif Bassiouni Revisiting crimes by the capitalist state / Gregg Barak The crime of the last century and of this century / David O. Friedrichs Nuclear weapons, international law, and the normalization of state crime / Ronald C. Kramer and David Kauzlarich Empire and exceptionalism : the Bush administration's criminal war against Iraq / Ronald C. Kramer and Raymond J. Michalowski Do empires commit state crime? / Peter Iadicola Burundi : a history of conflict and state crime / Kara Hoofnagle Legal precedent, jurisprudence, and state crime : Pinochet and crimes against humanity / Dawn L. Rothe and Michael Bohlander Reinventing controlling state crime and varieties of state crime and its control : what I would have done differently / Jeffrey Ian Ross Complementary and alternative domestic responses to state crime / Dawn L. Rothe The fairness of Gacaca / Roelof H. Haveman and Alphonse Muleefu Assassination of regime elites versus collateral civilian damage / Michael Bohlander and Dawn L. Rothe How to restore justice in Serbia? : a closer look at peoples' opinions about post-war reconciliation / Stephan Parmentier, Marta Valin¿as, and Elmar Weitekamp The current status and role of the international criminal court / Christopher W. Mullins...
