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Varieties of State Crime and Its Control - Softcover

 
9781881798200: Varieties of State Crime and Its Control

Synopsis

Topics include: Protecting Democracy by Controlling State Crime in Advanced Industrialized Countries; Controlling State Crime in the United Kingdom; Controlling State Crime in the United States of America: What Can We Do about the Thug State?; Controlling State Crime in Canada; Controlling State Crime in Israel: The Dichotomy between National Security versus Coercive Powers; Controlling State Crime in France; Controlling State Crime in Italy: The Corruption of a Democracy; Controlling State Crime in Japan: A Case Study of Political Corruption; and What Have We Learned and What is the Next Step?

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About the Author

Jeffrey Ian Ross, Ph.D. is a Professor in the School of Criminal Justice, College of Public Affairs, and a Research Fellow of the Center for International and Comparative Law at the University of Baltimore. He has researched, written, and lectured on national security, political violence, political crime, violent crime, corrections, policing, cybercrime, and crime and justice in American Indian communities for over two decades. Ross' work has appeared in many academic journals and books, as well as popular media. He is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of several books. Ross is the editor of CONTROLLING STATE CRIME: AN INTRODUCTION (Transaction Publishers, 2000).

From the Inside Flap

"In this volume, Jeffrey Ian Ross brings together a group of accomplished scholars who have produced insightful, groundbreaking essays on the challenges of state crime and its control in a number of different countries. This book is a tremendously valuable contribution to the emergent criminological study of state crime, and will provide a major point of departure for subsequent work." Prof. David O. Friedrichs, University of Scranton.

"What we consider as democracies nowadays are grounded on organized state international crime, as this book has shown through research carried out in major, advanced industrial countries." Prof. Roberto Bergalli, University of Barcelona.

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