Crimes By The Capitalist State

Author : Gregg Barak
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1991-07-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791495728

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Crimes by the Capitalist State by Gregg Barak Pdf

Crimes by the Capitalist State systematically examines a broad spectrum of state criminality including state terrorism, torture and murder, drug smuggling and arms trafficking, espionage and surveillance, and violations of internationally established human rights. While exploring crimes by the state from both a national and international perspective, this book also reflects the latest scholarship in comparative political and social science, especially as these relate to current developments in the political economy, the study of crimes by the powerful, and theories on state and social control. This book stresses the importance of studying crimes by the state as a prerequisite for peacemaking worldwide. For example, state crimes such as the Iran-Contra Affair or the apartheid policies of South Africa should become the subject matter of criminologists and lay persons alike. The collective evidence gathered here demonstrates that state criminality is primarily an organizational and structural phenomenon, and only secondarily an individual phenomenon, whether committed for ideological reasons or for personal profit.

Author : Gregg Barak
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791405842

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Crimes by the Capitalist State by Gregg Barak Pdf

Crimes by the Capitalist State systematically examines a broad spectrum of state criminality including state terrorism, torture and murder, drug smuggling and arms trafficking, espionage and surveillance, and violations of internationally established human rights. While exploring crimes by the state from both a national and international perspective, this book also reflects the latest scholarship in comparative political and social science, especially as these relate to current developments in the political economy, the study of crimes by the powerful, and theories on state and social control. This book stresses the importance of studying crimes by the state as a prerequisite for peacemaking worldwide. For example, state crimes such as the Iran-Contra Affair or the apartheid policies of South Africa should become the subject matter of criminologists and lay persons alike. The collective evidence gathered here demonstrates that state criminality is primarily an organizational and structural phenomenon, and only secondarily an individual phenomenon, whether committed for ideological reasons or for personal profit.

Author : Richard Quinney
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015012185842

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Class, State, & Crime by Richard Quinney Pdf

Author : Richard Quinney,Randall G. Shelden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351320344

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Critique of the Legal Order by Richard Quinney,Randall G. Shelden Pdf

Originally published thirty years ago, Critique of the Legal Order remains highly relevant for the twenty-first century. Here Richard Quinney provides a critical look at the legal order in capitalist society. Using a traditional Marxist perspective, he argues that the legal order is not intended to reduce crime and suffering, but to maintain class differences and a social order that mainly benefits the ruling class. Quinney challenges modern criminologists to examine their own positions. As "ancillary agents of power," criminologists provide information that governing elites use to manipulate and control those who threaten the system. Quinney's original and thorough analysis of "crime control bureaucracies" and the class basis of such bureaucracies anticipates subsequent research and theorizing about the "crime control industry," a system that aims at social control of marginalized populations, rather than elimination of the social conditions that give rise to crime. He forcefully argues that technology applied to a "war against crime," together with academic scholarship, is used to help maintain social order to benefit a ruling class. Quinney also suggests alternatives. Anticipating the work of Noam Chomsky, he suggests we must first overcome a powerful media that provides a "general framework" that serves as the "boundary of expression." Chomsky calls this the manufacture of consent by providing necessary illusions. Quinney calls for a critical philosophy that enables us to transcend the current order and seek an egalitarian socialist order based upon true democratic principles. This core study for criminologists should interest those with a critical perspective on contemporary society.

Author : Michael Woodiwiss
Publisher : Constable & Robinson
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015062568970

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Gangster Capitalism by Michael Woodiwiss Pdf

We know all about organized crime. Blockbuster movies and books, and thousands of news stories continually tell an eager public that organized crime is what gangsters do. Closely knit, ethnically distinct, and ruthlessly efficient, these mafias control the drugs trade, people trafficking and other serious crimes. If only states would take the threat seriously and recognize the global nature of modern organized crime, the FBI's success against the New York mafias could be replicated throughout the world. The wicked trade in addictive drugs could be halted. The trouble is, as Michael Woodiwiss demonstrates in shocking and surprising detail, what everyone knows is pretty much completely wrong. Organized crime is dominated by employees of multinational companies, politicians and bureaucrats. Gangsters are a problem, but they are minor players when compared with the intelligence and law enforcement agencies that selectively enforce drugs prohibition and profit from it. The position of large corporations in the global economy provides the most mouth-watering opportunities for illegal profits. Woodiwiss shows how respectable businessmen and revered statesmen have seized these opportunities in an orgy of fraud and illegal violence that would leave the most hardened Mafioso speechless with admiration.

Author : Dawn Rothe,Christopher W. Mullins
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780813549002

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State Crime by Dawn Rothe,Christopher W. Mullins Pdf

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.

Author : Penny Green,Tony Ward
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-20
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114295590

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State Crime by Penny Green,Tony Ward Pdf

Shows how transnational corporations use lobby groups to shape EU policy. New updated edition

Author : David Greenberg
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781439905647

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Crime And Capitalism by David Greenberg Pdf

Classic and contemporary viewpoints on crime.

Author : Steven Bittle,Laureen Snider,Steve Tombs,David Whyte
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781351815369

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Revisiting Crimes of the Powerful by Steven Bittle,Laureen Snider,Steve Tombs,David Whyte Pdf

Frank Pearce was the first scholar to use the term 'crimes of the powerful.' His ground-breaking book of the same name provided insightful critiques of liberal orthodox criminology, particularly in relation to labelling theory and symbolic interactionism, while making important contributions to Marxist understandings of the complex relations between crime, law and the state in the reproduction of the capitalist social order. Historically, crimes of the powerful were largely neglected in crime and deviance studies, but there is now an important and growing body of work addressing this gap. This book brings together leading international scholars to discuss the legacy of Frank Pearce’s book and his work in this area, demonstrating the invaluable contributions a critical Marxist framework brings to studies of corporate and state crimes, nationally, internationally and on a global scale. This book is neither a hagiography, nor a review of random areas of social scientific interest. Instead, it draws together a collection of scholarly and original articles which draw upon and critically interrogate the continued significance of the approach pioneered in Crimes of the Powerful. The book traces the evolution of crimes of the powerful empirically and theoretically since 1976, shows how critical scholars have integrated new theoretical insights derived from post-structuralism, feminism and critical race studies and offers perspectives on how the crimes of the powerful - and the enormous, ongoing destruction they cause - can be addressed and resisted.

Author : Todd Gordon
Publisher : Halifax, N.S. : Fernwood Pub.
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Begging
ISBN : 1552661857

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Cops, Crime and Capitalism by Todd Gordon Pdf

Framed within a Marxist class analysis, this study locates law and order policing as a central moment of capitalist state power. He argues that, as with policing historically, crime-fighting is not the principal aim of contemporary law and order policing -- rather the aim is the production of a new social order based on the severely diminished expectations of working people. Crime fighting matters only insofar as it helps in this process. Law and order policing is not really a fight against rampant and escalating crime; rather it is aimed at forcefully limiting any possibilities the able-bodied poor may try to pursue to avoid the worst forms of wage labour.

Author : Frank Pearce,Laureen Snider
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0802076211

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Corporate Crime by Frank Pearce,Laureen Snider Pdf

Corporate Crime is a collection of original papers by many of the world's leading experts on corporate crime, and covers its causes, extent, and control.

Author : Vincent Bevins
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781541724013

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The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins Pdf

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2020 BY NPR, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND GQ The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- backed by the United States. In 1965, the U.S. government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians. This was one of the most important turning points of the twentieth century, eliminating the largest communist party outside China and the Soviet Union and inspiring copycat terror programs in faraway countries like Brazil and Chile. But these events remain widely overlooked, precisely because the CIA's secret interventions were so successful. In this bold and comprehensive new history, Vincent Bevins builds on his incisive reporting for the Washington Post, using recently declassified documents, archival research and eye-witness testimony collected across twelve countries to reveal a shocking legacy that spans the globe. For decades, it's been believed that parts of the developing world passed peacefully into the U.S.-led capitalist system. The Jakarta Method demonstrates that the brutal extermination of unarmed leftists was a fundamental part of Washington's final triumph in the Cold War.

Author : Gennaro F. Vito,Jeffrey R. Maahs,Ronald M. Holmes
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Law
ISBN : 0763730017

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Criminology by Gennaro F. Vito,Jeffrey R. Maahs,Ronald M. Holmes Pdf

Across America, crime is a consistent public concern. The authors have produced a comprehensive work on major criminological theories, combining classical criminology with new topics, such as Internet crime and terrorism. The text also focuses on how criminology shapes public policy.

Author : Paul B. Stretesky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351906975

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Radical and Marxist Theories of Crime by Paul B. Stretesky Pdf

The essays selected for this volume show how radical and Marxist criminology has established itself as an influential critique since it emerged in the late 1960s. Unlike orthodox criminology which emphasizes individual level explanations of criminal behavior, radical and Marxist criminology emphasizes power inequality and structures, especially those related to class, as key factors in crime, law and justice. This collection of essays draws attention to the way in which structural forces shape and influence both individual and institutional (for example, governmental) behavior; highlights neglected crime (corporate, governmental, state-corporate and environmental) which causes more extensive damage than the street crimes examined by orthodox criminology; and discusses the ways in which law and criminal justice processes reinforce power structures and contribute to class control.

Author : Kristian Lasset,Kristian Lasslett
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0745335039

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State Crime on the Margins of Empire by Kristian Lasset,Kristian Lasslett Pdf

This book offers a pioneering window into the elusive workings of state-corporate crime within the mining industries. It follows a single, brutal campaign of resistance organised by indigenous activists on the island of Papua New Guinea, who struggled against a decision to close a Rio Tinto owned copper mine, and investigates the subsequent state-corporate response, which led to the shocking loss of some 10,000 lives. Drawing on internal records and interviews with senior officials, Kristian Lasslett examines how an articulation of capitalist growth mediated through patrimonial politics, imperial state-power, large-scale mining, and clan-based, rural society, prompted an ostensibly 'responsible' corporate citizen, and liberal state actors, to organise a counterinsurgency campaign punctuated with gross human rights abuses. State Crime on the Margins of Empire represents a unique intervention rooted in a classical Marxist tradition that challenges positivist streams of criminological scholarship, in order to illuminate with greater detail the historical forces faced by communities in the global south caught in the increasingly violent dynamics of the extractive industries.