State Crime
Current Perspectives
1st Edition
Published on 13. October 2010
349 pages
978-0-8135-5023-7 (ISBN)
Description
Current media and political discourse on crime has long ignored crimes committed by States themselves, despite their greater financial and human toll. For the past 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 a collection of essays by leading scholars in the field, State Crime offers a set of cases exemplifying state criminality along with various methods for controlling governmental transgressions. With topics ranging from crimes of aggression to nuclear weapons to the construction and implementation of social controls, this volume is an indispensable resource for those who examine the behavior of States and those who study crime in its varied forms.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Crimes of State and Other Forms of Collective Group Violence by Nonstate Actors
- Part One: Crimes of the State
- Chapter 1: Revisiting Crimes bythe Capitalist State
- Chapter 2: The Crime of the Last Century-And of This Century?
- Chapter 3: Nuclear Weapons, International Law, and the Normalization of State Crime
- Chapter 4: Empire and Exceptionalism
- Chapter 5: Do Empires Commit State Crime?
- Chapter 6: Burundi
- Chapter 7:Legal Precedent, Jurisprudence, and State Crime
- Part Two: Controlling State Crime
- Chapter 8: Reinventing Controlling State Crime and Varieties of State Crime and Its Control
- Chapter 9: Complementary and Alternative Domestic Responses to State Crime
- Chapter 10: The Fairness of Gacaca
- Chapter 11: Assassination of Regime Elites versus Collateral Civilian Damage
- Chapter 12: How to Restore Justice in Serbia?
- Chapter 13: The Current Status and Role of the International Criminal Court
- References
- Contributors
- Index
