Unmasking the Crimes of the Powerful (Paperback)

David Whyte

ISBN 10: 0820456918 / ISBN 13: 9780820456911

Published by Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2003

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Paperback. 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. The fact that corporate and state crimes cause far more economic, physical, and social damage than conventional understandings of crime receives at best "empty, gestural acknowledgement" by contemporary criminology. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Unmasking the Crimes of the Powerful (Paperback)
• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820456918
• ISBN 13: 9780820456911
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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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.

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.