Kristian Lasslett is a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Ulster and sits on the International State Crime Initiative's executive board. He is the author of State Crime on the Margins of Empire: Rio Tinto, the War on Bougainville and Resistance to Mining (Pluto, 2014), and editor of the State Crime Testimony Project and joint editor-in-chief of State Crime.

'An important and rare book. Lasslett provides the missing link to the reasons why nations fall into turmoil - the state crimes of the powerful. His investigation illuminates how so much of the world is ordered'

• Series IntroductionAbbreviationsAcknowledgements1. State Crime and the Empire of Capital2. The Specificities of Papua New Guinea’s Development3. From Landowner Crisis to Industrial Sabotage4. Eight Days That Shook BCL, the First Mine Shutdown and Its Aftermath5. A Tale of Two Solutions: Counterinsurgency Warfare and the Bougainville Package6. The Making of Civil War on Bougainville7. State Crime and Really Existing Capitalism: The Lessons of BougainvilleAfterword: Impunity, Civil Society and the Struggle Ahead in MelanesiaNotesBibliographyIndex

Kristian Lasslett is a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Ulster and sits on the International State Crime Initiative's executive board. He is the author of State Crime on the Margins of Empire: Rio Tinto, the War on Bougainville and Resistance to Mining (Pluto, 2014), and editor of the State Crime Testimony Project and joint editor-in-chief of State Crime.

'An important and rare book. Lasslett provides the missing link to the reasons why nations fall into turmoil - the state crimes of the powerful. His investigation illuminates how so much of the world is ordered'

• Series IntroductionAbbreviationsAcknowledgements1. State Crime and the Empire of Capital2. The Specificities of Papua New Guinea’s Development3. From Landowner Crisis to Industrial Sabotage4. Eight Days That Shook BCL, the First Mine Shutdown and Its Aftermath5. A Tale of Two Solutions: Counterinsurgency Warfare and the Bougainville Package6. The Making of Civil War on Bougainville7. State Crime and Really Existing Capitalism: The Lessons of BougainvilleAfterword: Impunity, Civil Society and the Struggle Ahead in MelanesiaNotesBibliographyIndex

Kristian Lasslett is a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Ulster and sits on the International State Crime Initiative's executive board. He is the author of State Crime on the Margins of Empire: Rio Tinto, the War on Bougainville and Resistance to Mining (Pluto, 2014), and editor of the State Crime Testimony Project and joint editor-in-chief of State Crime.

'An important and rare book. Lasslett provides the missing link to the reasons why nations fall into turmoil - the state crimes of the powerful. His investigation illuminates how so much of the world is ordered'

• Series IntroductionAbbreviationsAcknowledgements1. State Crime and the Empire of Capital2. The Specificities of Papua New Guinea’s Development3. From Landowner Crisis to Industrial Sabotage4. Eight Days That Shook BCL, the First Mine Shutdown and Its Aftermath5. A Tale of Two Solutions: Counterinsurgency Warfare and the Bougainville Package6. The Making of Civil War on Bougainville7. State Crime and Really Existing Capitalism: The Lessons of BougainvilleAfterword: Impunity, Civil Society and the Struggle Ahead in MelanesiaNotesBibliographyIndex