CRIMES OF STATES & POWERFUL ELITES

This book explores fourteen case studies of state crime, crimes/immoralities of the powerful, including disasters caused by neglect, pharmaceutical fraud, state sponsored or instigated crime, corporate crime, organisational crime and state terrorism. The book offers a valuable contribution to critical social science perspectives on criminality, providing analysis which explores issues of accountability and social harm and linking these to wider structural contexts, particularly the role of neoliberal ideologies. At the same time, the book will provide a critical perspective on historical case studies which continue to have legacies in the present, and which help to shed light on histories of domination and inequalities and to illustrate continuities and changes in crimes of the powerful over time.

Claudia Radiven is a Diamond Jubilee Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds. Her work focusses on deradicalisation in the UK, colonial racial governance, genocide and Islamophobia.

Simon Prideaux was an associate professor of social welfare and crime in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds. His authored works include “Not so New Labour: A Sociological Critique of New Labour’s Policy and Practice” (2005) and “State Crime and Immorality: The Corrupting Influence of the Powerful” (2016).