Full Description
Across the world, most people are well aware of ordinary criminal harms to person and property. Often committed by the powerless and poor, these individualized crimes are catalogued in the statistics collected annually by the FBI and by similar agencies in other developed nations. In contrast, the more harmful and systemic forms of injury to person and property committed by powerful and wealthy individuals, groups, and national states are neither calculated by governmental agencies nor annually reported by the mass media. As a result, most citizens of the world are unaware of the routinized "crimes of the powerful", even though they are more likely to experience harms and injuries from these types of organized offenses than they are from the atomized offenses of the powerless.
Research on the crimes of the powerful brings together several areas of criminological focus, involving organizational and institutional networks of powerful people that commit crimes against workers, marketplaces, taxpayers and political systems, as well as acts of torture, terrorism, and genocide. This international handbook offers a comprehensive, authoritative and structural synthesis of these interrelated topics of criminological concern. It also explains why the crimes of the powerful are so difficult to control.
Edited by internationally acclaimed criminologist Gregg Barak, this book reflects the state of the art of scholarly research, covering all the key areas including corporate, global, environmental, and state crimes. The handbook is a perfect resource for students and researchers engaged with explaining and controlling the crimes of the powerful, domestically and internationally.
Contents
Introduction: on the invisibility and neutralization of the crimes of the powerful and their victims, Gregg Barak Part I: Culture, ideology and the crimes of the powerful 1. Crimes of the powerful and the definition of crime, David Friedrichs 2. Operationalizing "organizational violence", Gary S. Green and Huisheng Shou 3. Justifying the crimes of the powerful, Vincenzo Ruggiero 4. Corporate criminals constructing white collar crime—or why there is no corporate crime on USA Network's White Collar series, Carrie L. Buist and Paul Leighton Part II: Crimes of globalization5. Capital and catharsis in the Nigerian petroleum extraction industry: lessons on the crimes of globalization, Ifeanyi Ezeonu6. State and corporate drivers of global dysnomie: horrendous crimes and the law, Anamika Twyman- Ghoshal and Nikos Passas 7. Truth, justice and the Walmart way: consequences of a retailing behemoth, Lloyd Klein and Steve Lang8. Human trafficking: examining global responses, Marie Segrave and Sanja Milivojevic 9. Globalization, sovereignty and crime: a philosophical processing, Kingsley EjioguPart III: Corporate crimes 10. Corporate crimes and the problems of enforcement, Ronald Burns 11. Corporate-financial crime scandals: a comparative analysis of the collapses of Insull and Enron, Brandon Sullivan 12. Corporate social responsibility, corporate surveillance and neutralizing corporate resistance: on the commodification of risk-based policing, Hans Krause Hansen and Julie Uldam 13. Walmart's sustainability initiative: greening capitalism as a form of corporate irresponsibility, Steve Lang and Lloyd Klein Part IV: Environmental crimes 14. Climate change, ecocide and the crimes of the powerful, Rob White.../part contents
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