Handbook on State Criminality

Edited by Dawn L. Rothe, Professor of Criminology, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Florida Atlantic University, Victoria E. Collins, Director of Criminal Justice Programs and Associate Professor, College of Social Work, University of Kentucky and Calli M. Cain, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Denver, USA

‘Rothe, Collins and Cain’s edited Handbook examines various practices of state crime and harms, presenting a detailed, thought-provoking, comprehensive, and persuasive tour de force. Their Handbook offers insightful understandings, coupled with a powerful positive learning experience to combat one of humanity’s most challenging and important arenas of social conduct.’

• ContentsEditors’ introduction to Handbook on State Criminality 1Dawn L. Rothe, Victoria E. Collins, and Calli M. CainPART I  DIGITAL GOVERNANCE, FINANCIAL HARM, AND GLOBALACCOUNTABILITY1 Corporate complicity in international crimes 12Isabel Schoultz and Maximilian Funder2 Ritualized isomorphism, anti-corruption monitoring, and the transnationalpolitical order 24Steven Bittle and Jon Frauley3 The blockchain state: crypto-assets, authoritarianism, and the legalizationof financial harm 35Jose Atiles4 Digital sovereignty, material atrocities: social media corporations as statecriminal actors 51Rachel E. DavisPART II  ENVIRONMENTAL HARM AND BEYOND5 The state, criminality, and environmental harm 65Rob White6 Twin apocalyptic state crimes: the nexus between nuclear weapons andclimate change 80Ronald C. Kramer7 The epitome of state-corporate crime, environmental destruction, andspace expansionism 93Victoria E. Collins and Dawn L. Rothe8 The cosmic hall of mirrors: a criminological imagination of the statecorporate power, science fiction, and space exploration triad 107Yarin EskiPART III  GENDER, CULTURE, AND RESISTANCE9 Queering state crime 122Emily Lenning and Sara Brightman10 Woman abuse in sports-related contexts: the contribution of the state 135Walter S. DeKeseredy11 Where’s the joke? An abolition feminist critique of visual humor regardingstate rape 150Vivian Swayne12 Musical resistance to gendered state crime in Iran 164David KauzlarichPART IV  EMPIRE, COLONIALISM, AND HISTORICAL VIOLENCE13 Colonization, coloniality, and state crime: decolonizing criminologicalthought 177Ian Warren, Tatiana Corrales, and Emma Ryan14 Decolonizing state crime criminology: mainstreaming Southern justicemechanisms to deal with colonial crimes 191Valeria Vegh Weis15 A haunting memory: the ghosts of Gettysburg and state-sponsoredstructural violence 205Favian Alejandro Martín, Kevin Revier, Elizabeth Bittel, andSerena Goodridge16 The invisible empire: latent imperialism in United States public opinionsurveys 219Daniel J. Patten and Josh R. KleinPART V  IMMIGRATION, TRAFFICKING, ATROCITY VIOLENCE,AND MORE17 The leviathan: the role of the state in atrocity violence 236Christopher W. Mullins18 Unmasking harm: immigration, nonprofits, and state-corporate crime 250Maya Pagni Barak19 Superpower? More like super-predator: calculated kindness and thepredatory nature of the United States’ Special Immigrant Visa Program 265Sarah Pedigo Kulzer20 State criminality and human trafficking: are the “superhero” states reallythe villain? 279Calli M. Cain21 Donald Trump as the Houdini of state-organized crime: a snapshot of theunlawful and anti-constitutional president of the United States 297Gregg Barak