Full Description
Within criminology 'the state' is often ignored as an active participant, or represented as a neutral force. While state crime studies have proliferated, criminologists have not paid attention to the history and impact of resistance to state crime. This book recognises that crimes of the state are far more serious and harmful than crimes committed by individuals, and considers how such crimes may be contested, prevented, challenged or stopped.
Gathering together key scholars from the UK, USA, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, this book offers a deepened understanding of state crime through the practical and analytical lens of resistance. This book focuses on crimes ranging from gross violations of human rights (such as genocide, war crimes, mass killings, summary executions, torture, harsh detention and rape during war), to entrenched discrimination, unjust social policies, border controls, corruption, fraud, resource plunder and the failure to provide the regulatory environment and principled leadership necessary to deal with global warming.
As the first to focus on state crime and resistance, this collection inspires new questions as it maps the contours of previously unexplored territory. It is aimed at students and academics researching state crimes, resistance, human rights and social movements. It is also essential reading for all those interested in joining the struggles to champion ways of living that value humanity and justice over power.
Contents
1. Introduction - Resistance to State Crime 2. Resisting State Crime as a Criminological Project in the Context of the Arab Spring 3. Civil Society, Resistance and State Crime 4. Public Criminology and the Responsibility to Speak in the Prophetic Voice Concerning Global Warming 5. The Great Escape: Refugees, Detention and Resistance 6. The Politics of State Crime and Resistance: Self Determination in Sri Lanka 7. Resistance to state-corporate crimes in West Papua 8. The Race to Defraud: State Crime and the Immiseration of Indigenous People 9. 'Frameworks of Resistance': Challenging the UK's securitization agenda 10. Environmental Activism and Resistance to State-Corporate Crime 11. Witnessing the Gorgon: Remarks on Normative Visuality in Confronting State Crime 12. Music as Resistance to State Crime and Violence 13. Justice and Resistance through Community Legal Centres 14. Hardening the Rule of Law and Asylum Seekers: Exporting Risk and the Judicial Censure of State Legality 15. A Global Resistant Movement? From Human Rights to International Criminal Justice 16. The Master's Tools: Can Supranational Law Confront Crimes of Powerful States? 17. Beyond State Crime.
