Title: Exposing, sanctioning and preventing state crime
Abstract: Part 1 Conceptual, definitional and methodological issues: political crime - conclusion, Louis Proall counting bodies - the dismal science of authorized terror, Irving Louis Horowitz crime, criminology and human rights - towards an understanding of state crime, Gregg Barak toward the study of governmental crime - nuclear weapons, foreign intervention and international law, David Kauzlarich et al human rights and crimes of the state - the culture of denial, Stanley Cohen. Part 2 The varieties of state crime: war making - war, revolution and the growth of the coercive state, Ted Robert Gurr genocide - toward a functional definition, Ward Churchill, toward empirical theory of genocides and politicides - identification and measurement of cases since 1945, Barbara Harff and Ted Robert Gurr, the bureaucracy of murder revisited, Albert Breton and Ronald Wintrobe nuclearism - nuclear energy and the destiny of mankind - some criminological perspectives, Richard Harding, a criminology of the nuclear state, David Kauzlarich state-sponsored terrorism and crimes against citizens - whose terrorists? Libya and state criminality, Philip Jenkins, state sponsored terror violence, J.D. Van der Vyver, government breaks the law - the sabotaging of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, Harry Brill. Part 3 Hybrid forms of state crime: state-organized crime - state-organized crime, William J. Chambliss state-corporate crime in the US nuclear weapons production complex, David Kauzlarich and Ronald C. Kramer political white collar crime - the corruption of politics and the politics of corruption - an overview, David Nelken and Michael Levi. Part 4 Comparative dimensions of state crime: state violence and violent crime, Ronald C. Kramer locating the holocaust on the genocide spectrum - towards a methodology of definition and categorization, Henry R. Huttenbach socialist graft - the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China - a preliminary survey, Peter Harris political scandal - a Western luxury?, Stephen Riley three faces of cruelty - towards a comparative sociology of evil, Randall Collins genocide and mass destruction - doing harm to others as a missing dimension of psychopathology, Israel W. Charny the genesis of genocide in Rwanda - the fatal dialectic of class and ethnicity, David Nortman Smith democracy, power, genocide and mass murder, R.J. Rummel. Part 5: Exposing state crime: government responses to human rights reports - claims, denials and counterclaims, Stanley Cohen the baffling case of the smoking gun - the social ecology of political accounts in the Iran-contra affair, Gray Cavender et al the process and significance of political scandals - a comparison of Watergate and the sewergate episode at the Environmental Protection Agency, Andrew Szasz the effects of scandal on organizational deviance - the case of the FBI, Tony G. Poveda. (Part contents)
Publication Year: 1998
Publication Date: 1998-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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