An Introduction to Political Crime
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An Introduction to Political Crime

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An Introduction to Political Crime

About this book

In An introduction to political crime, Jeffrey Ian Ross provides the most comprehensive and contemporary analysis of political crime addressing both violent and nonviolent crimes committed by and against the state (e.g. political corruption, illegal domestic surveillance, and human rights violations) in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and other advanced industrialized democracies since the 1960s.

Written by a respected social scientist, this book reviews appropriate theories of political crime and explains numerous definitional and conceptual issues, causes of political crimes, ways to control it, and effects of different types of political crime.Ross integrates new scholarship on state crime, and post 9/11 developments in both scholarship and current affairs and uses numerous examples to help readers understand the issues.

The book is supported by a companion website, containing additional materials for both students and lecturers, which is available from the link above.

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Information

Publisher
Policy Press
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9781847426802
eBook ISBN
9781447308287
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Criminology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of boxes, figures and tables
  7. About the author
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Foreword by David O. Friedrichs
  10. Preface
  11. Chapter one: Introduction
  12. Chapter two: Theoretical explanations of political crime
  13. Chapter three: Oppositional political crimes
  14. Chapter four: Nonviolent oppositional political crimes
  15. Chapter five: Violent oppositional political crimes: assassination, riot, sabotage, subversion, and terrorism
  16. Chapter six: State crime
  17. Chapter seven: Political corruption
  18. Chapter eight: Illegal domestic surveillance
  19. Chapter nine: Human rights violations
  20. Chapter ten: State violence
  21. Chapter eleven: State-corporate crime
  22. Chapter twelve: Conclusion: controlling oppositional and state crime
  23. References
  24. Notes