Crime, Harm and the State

Lynne Copson is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at The Open University. Eleni Dimou is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at The Open University. Steve Tombs is Professor of Criminology at the Open University. He has a long-standing interest in the incidence, nature and regulation of corporate and state crime, and has published widely on these matters. He works closely with the Hazards movement in the UK, was a founding member and Chair of the Centre for Corporate Accountability, and is on the Board of Inquest.

'A critical account of the possibilities of criminology for addressing the injustices of historical and social harm, as well as the discipline’s inherent limitations. It speaks to the authors’ research trajectories.' Gustavo Rojas-Páez, University of Sussex

• 1.Introducing Crime, Harm and the State – Lynne Copson, Eleni Dimou and Steve TombsPart I: Drugs: A Case Study of Crime and Harm2.The War on Drugs: From Crime To Harm? – Giulia Federica Zampini and Camille May Stengel3.Consuming Drugs: Soft Drugs, Colonialism and Slavery – Eleni Dimou4.Dealing in Drugs – Steve TombsPart II: Questions of Harm5.Criminology, Harm and Nonhuman Animals – Matthew Melsa6.Crime, Harm and Sexuality – Teresa Willis7.Where’s the Harm in Tourism? – Eleni Dimou8.Crime and Harm in the Food Industry – Steve TombsPart III: Exploring Borders9.Understanding States: Making Law, Making Order? – Gerry Mooney and Steve Tombs10.Crossing Borders – Evgenia Iliadou11.Policing Borders: States of Surveillance – Teresa Willis12.State Crime, Social Harm and Genocide – Penny Green13.Power, Environmental Harm and the Threat of Global Ecocide – Nigel South and Reece Walters14.Redrawing Borders: Crime Harm and the State – Lynne Copson