Why are people with excessive corporate power permitted to engage in wide-ranging forms of harm and victimization? How are governing bodies, originally established to protect and defend modern democracies from despotic and ancient regimes of abuse, abdicating their responsibilit…
Why are crimes of the suite punished more leniently than crimes of the street? When police killings of citizens go unpunished, political torture is sanctioned by the state, and the financial frauds of Wall Street traders remain unprosecuted, nothing succeeds with such regularity…
State Crime: Current Perspectives
by Rothe, Dawn, Kauzlarich, David, Ross, Jeffrey Ian, Bohlander, Michael, Barak, Gregg, Bassiouni, M. Cherif, Kramer, Ronald C., Mullins, Christopher, Chambliss, William, Friedrichs, David, Haveman, Roelof, Hoofnagle, Kara, Iadicola, Peter, Michalowski, Raymond J., Parmentier, Stephan, Weitkamp, Elmar
fromCritical issues in crime and society
Current media and political discourse on crime has long ignored crimes committed by States themselves, despite their greater financial and human toll. For two decades, scholars have examined how and why States violate their own laws and international law and explored what can be…
Family dynamics, privileged disadvantages, and coming of age -- A lifetime of deviance, deception and dishonesty, 1970-2016 -- Weaponizing the law, litigation, and legality -- Campaigns and policies of adversity, harmfulness, and divisiveness -- A sinkhole of organizational corr…
"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 tenant…
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…
"Research on the crimes of the powerful brings together several areas of independent and yet often overlapping areas of criminological focus, involving organizational and institutional networks of powerful people, including crimes committed against workers, marketplaces, taxpaye…
