Unmasking the Crimes of the Powerful: Scrutinizing States and Corporations - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820456918 ISBN 13: 9780820456911

Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2003

Synopsis

Despite the enormous economic, physical and social impacts of crimes committed by states and corporations, they are still relatively under-researched within contemporary social science―partly because of the perpetrator’s ability to evade critical scrutiny. The contributions in this book map out the parameters of a political economy of researching the powerful, marking out the major problems encountered, and identifying ways in which these problems might be overcome or circumnavigated. To this end, the book brings together original essays which reflect upon researching the powerful in Britain, Canada, Finland, Ireland, Spain, Turkey and the United States. Together these chapters advance our understandings of what corporate and state power is, how this power operates, and how it might be more effectively resisted.

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About the Author

Steve Tombs earned his PhD in Sociology at the University of Wolverhampton and is now Professor of Sociology at Liverpool John Moores University, England. He is co-author (with Gary Slapper) of Corporate Crime (1999) and (with Frank Pearce) of Toxic Capitalism: Corporate Crime and the Chemical Industry (1998).

Dave Whyte earned his PhD in Criminology at Liverpool John Moores University and is now a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Leeds. He has published in a range of edited collections and journals, including Corporate Watch, Critical Criminology, Journal of Law and Society, Policy and Politics, Risk Management, Social and Legal Studies, and Studies in Political Economy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820456918
• ISBN 13: 9780820456911
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 318
• Editor: Tombs Steve, Whyte Dave