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Corrupt Capital
Alcohol, Nightlife, and Crimes of the Powerful
Inbunden, 2020
2513 kr
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This book offers a deep dive into the social, political, and economic forces that make white-collar crime and corruption a staple feature of the nightlife economy. The author, a former bouncer-turned-bartender of party bars and nightclubs in a large U.S. city, draws from an auto-ethnographic case …
Uncovering the Crimes of Urbanisation
Researching Corruption, Violence and Urban Conflict
Häftad, 2021
721 kr
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From the social cleansing of cities through to indigenous land struggles at the frontline of extraction megaprojects, planetary urbanisation is a contested process that is radically shaping social life and the sustainability of human civilisation. In this pioneering intervention, it is maintained …
State-Corporate Crime and the Commodification of Victimhood
The Toxic Legacy of Trafigura’s Ship of Death
Häftad, 2020
721 kr
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This book highlights the continuing impunity enjoyed by corporations for large scale crimes, and in particular the crime of toxic waste dumping in Ivory Coast in 2006. It provides an account of the crime, and outlines contributory reasons for the impunity both under the law and from a …
Market Criminology
State-Corporate Crime in the Petroleum Extraction Industry
Häftad, 2021
721 kr
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Building on original research into the petroleum industry and on the theory of crimes of globalization, this book introduces the concept of Market Criminology: the criminology of preventable market-generated harms and the criminogenic effects of market rationality in variegated forms of …
Revisiting Crimes of the Powerful
Marxism, Crime and Deviance
Av Steven Bittle, Laureen Snider m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
721 kr
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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 …
Torture as State Crime
A Criminological Analysis of the Transnational Institutional Torturer
Häftad, 2021
663 kr
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Can we understand torture by focusing on the torture chamber or even on the states in which it is practiced, or do we have to consider the wider political context in which it is embedded? This is the central question of this book which explores concepts of state crime for understanding and …
Crime of Maldevelopment
Economic Deregulation and Violence in the Global South
Häftad, 2020
721 kr
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This book explores the causal relationship between the deregulation of international economic interests and the forms of violence that prevail in a large part of the Global South. More specifically, this book tells the story of how transnational corporations benefitting from increasing deregulation …
Natural Resources, Extraction and Indigenous Rights in Latin America
Exploring the Boundaries of Environmental and State-Corporate Crime in Bolivia, Peru, and Mexico
Häftad, 2021
721 kr
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In 1989, the International Labor Organization stated that all indigenous peoples living in the postcolonial world were entitled to the right to prior consultation, over activities that could potentially impact their territories and traditional livelihoods. However, in many cases the economic …
Sustainable Development as Environmental Harm
Rights, Regulation, and Injustice in the Canadian Oil Sands
Av James Heydon
Häftad, 2021
721 kr
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In this in-depth analysis of First Nations opposition to the oil sands industry, James Heydon offers detailed empirical insight into Canadian oil sands regulation. The environmental consequences of the oil sands industry have been thoroughly explored by scholars from a variety of disciplines. …
Corrupt Capital
Alcohol, Nightlife, and Crimes of the Powerful
Häftad, 2022
692 kr
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This book offers a deep dive into the social, political, and economic forces that make white-collar crime and corruption a staple feature of the nightlife economy. The author, a former bouncer-turned-bartender of party bars and nightclubs in a large U.S. city, draws from an auto-ethnographic case …
Domestic Violence as State Crime
A Feminist Framework for Challenge and Change
Av Evelyn Rose
Inbunden, 2021
2513 kr
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Domestic Violence as State Crime presents a provocative challenge to the way that domestic violence is understood and addressed. Underpinned by a radical feminist perspective, the central argument of this book is that domestic violence against women constitutes a patriarchal state crime. By …
Domestic Violence as State Crime
A Feminist Framework for Challenge and Change
Av Evelyn Rose
Häftad, 2023
692 kr
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Domestic Violence as State Crime presents a provocative challenge to the way that domestic violence is understood and addressed. Underpinned by a radical feminist perspective, the central argument of this book is that domestic violence against women constitutes a patriarchal state crime. By …
State Crime and Civil Activism
On the Dialectics of Repression and Resistance
Av Penny Green, Tony Ward
Häftad, 2021
636 kr
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State Crime and Civil Activism explores the work of non-government organisations (NGOs) challenging state violence and corruption in six countries – Colombia, Tunisia, Kenya, Turkey, Myanmar and Papua New Guinea. It discusses the motives and methods of activists, and how they document and criticise …
Revisiting Crimes of the Powerful
Marxism, Crime and Deviance
Av Steven Bittle, Laureen Snider m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
2513 kr
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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 …
State Violence, Torture, and Political Prisoners
On the Role Played by Amnesty International in Brazil During the Dictatorship (1964–1985)
Inbunden, 2019
2519 kr
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State Violence, Torture, and Political Prisoners discusses the activities of Amnesty International during the period of Brazil’s dictatorship (1964–1985). During the dictatorship, Amnesty assisted political prisoners who were submitted to torture and helped to publicise charges of torture against …
Crime of Maldevelopment
Economic Deregulation and Violence in the Global South
Inbunden, 2018
2519 kr
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This book explores the causal relationship between the deregulation of international economic interests and the forms of violence that prevail in a large part of the Global South. More specifically, this book tells the story of how transnational corporations benefitting from increasing deregulation …
Natural Resources, Extraction and Indigenous Rights in Latin America
Exploring the Boundaries of Environmental and State-Corporate Crime in Bolivia, Peru, and Mexico
Inbunden, 2018
2513 kr
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In 1989, the International Labor Organization stated that all indigenous peoples living in the postcolonial world were entitled to the right to prior consultation, over activities that could potentially impact their territories and traditional livelihoods. However, in many cases the economic …
State-Corporate Crime and the Commodification of Victimhood
The Toxic Legacy of Trafigura’s Ship of Death
Inbunden, 2018
2513 kr
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This book highlights the continuing impunity enjoyed by corporations for large scale crimes, and in particular the crime of toxic waste dumping in Ivory Coast in 2006. It provides an account of the crime, and outlines contributory reasons for the impunity both under the law and from a …
State Violence, Torture, and Political Prisoners
On the Role Played by Amnesty International in Brazil During the Dictatorship (1964–1985)
Häftad, 2021
692 kr
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State Violence, Torture, and Political Prisoners discusses the activities of Amnesty International during the period of Brazil’s dictatorship (1964–1985). During the dictatorship, Amnesty assisted political prisoners who were submitted to torture and helped to publicise charges of torture against …
Criminology on Trump
Av Gregg Barak
Häftad, 2022
440 kr
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Criminology on Trump is a criminological investigation of the world’s most successful outlaw, Donald J. Trump. Over the course of five decades, Donald Trump has been accused of sexual assault, tax evasion, money laundering, non-payment of employees, and the defrauding of tenants, customers, …
Criminology on Trump
Av Gregg Barak
Inbunden, 2022
2667 kr
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Criminology on Trump is a criminological investigation of the world’s most successful outlaw, Donald J. Trump. Over the course of five decades, Donald Trump has been accused of sexual assault, tax evasion, money laundering, non-payment of employees, and the defrauding of tenants, customers, …
Indicting the 45th President
Boss Trump, the GOP, and What We Can Do About the Threat to American Democracy
Av Gregg Barak
Häftad, 2024
342 kr
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Indicting the 45th President is a sequel to Criminology on Trump in real time, continuing the criminological investigation into the former US president. Developing and expanding on the themes of family dynamics, deviance, deception, dishonesty, and the weaponization of the law, this book offers the …
Indicting the 45th President
Boss Trump, the GOP, and What We Can Do About the Threat to American Democracy
Av Gregg Barak
Inbunden, 2024
2312 kr
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Indicting the 45th President is a sequel to Criminology on Trump in real time, continuing the criminological investigation into the former US president. Developing and expanding on the themes of family dynamics, deviance, deception, dishonesty, and the weaponization of the law, this book offers the …
Framing Impunity in the Context of State Crime
A Study of Turkish State Criminality Against Kurds (1990- 2000)
Inbunden, 2024
2312 kr
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This book introduces a new conceptual framework for impunity within state crime theory and uses Turkish state criminality against Kurds between 1990 and 2000 as a case study. It develops an understanding of impunity that goes beyond viewing the state solely as an actor, facilitator, or denier of …
Framing Impunity in the Context of State Crime
A Study of Turkish State Criminality Against Kurds (1990- 2000)
Häftad, 2025
650 kr
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This book introduces a new conceptual framework for impunity within state crime theory and uses Turkish state criminality against Kurds between 1990 and 2000 as a case study. It develops an understanding of impunity that goes beyond viewing the state solely as an actor, facilitator, or denier of …
Humanitarian Crime
Disasters, Dispossession, and Resistance in Port-au-Prince
Inbunden, 2026
2312 kr
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This is the first book to theorise humanitarian power within the crimes of the powerful tradition. It offers a compelling account of the structural forces embedded in humanitarian institutions and the practices and forms of legitimation through which the violent effects of humanitarian intervention …
Citizenship and Genocide Cards
IDs, Statelessness and Rohingya Resistance in Myanmar
Inbunden, 2024
2312 kr
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This book draws on Rohingya oral histories and narratives about Myanmar’s genocide and ID schemes to critique prevailing international approaches to legal identities and statelessness. By centring the narratives of survivors of state crimes, collected in the aftermath of the 2017 genocidal …
Citizenship and Genocide Cards
IDs, Statelessness and Rohingya Resistance in Myanmar
Häftad, 2024
556 kr
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This book draws on Rohingya oral histories and narratives about Myanmar’s genocide and ID schemes to critique prevailing international approaches to legal identities and statelessness. By centring the narratives of survivors of state crimes, collected in the aftermath of the 2017 genocidal …
Tolerating State Violence
Häftad, 2025
596 kr
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Why do we tolerate state violence, despite it being disagreeable, painful and often harmful for our societies? Drawing on three liberal democratic countries – Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom – this book exposes how states perpetuate tolerance for their violence through …
Tolerating State Violence
Inbunden, 2025
2312 kr
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Why do we tolerate state violence, despite it being disagreeable, painful and often harmful for our societies? Drawing on three liberal democratic countries – Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom – this book exposes how states perpetuate tolerance for their violence through …
