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Academic research on state crime has focused on the illegal actions of individuals and organizations (i.e., syndicates and corporations). Interchangeably labeled governmental crime, delinquency, illegality, or lawlessness, official deviance and misconduct, crimes of obedience, and human rights violations, state crime has largely been considered in relation to insurgent violence or threats to national security. Generally, it has been seen as a phenomenon endemic to authoritarian countries in transitional and lesser developed contexts. We need look no further than today's headlines to see the evidence of state crime. Rwanda, where government troops massacred countless Hutus and Tutsis, governmental atrocities in Kosovo, at the hands of the Yugoslavian Army, and East Timor where both individuals and property have been decimated, largely perpetrated by the Indonesian military.The study of how to control state crime has been difficult. There are definitional, conceptual, theoretical, and methodological problems, as well as difficulties in designing of practical methods to abolish, combat, control or resist this type of behavior. Jeffrey Ian Ross reviews these shortcomings, then develops a preliminary model of ways to control state crime. His intention is stimulating scholarly research and debate, but also encouraging progressive-minded policymakers and practitioners who work for governmental and nongovernmental organizations. The hope is that they will reflect upon the methods they advocate or use to minimize state transgressions. This new edition will be of compelling interest to students of political science and criminology, as well as general readers interested in human rights, state crime, and world affairs.
Contents
Introduction to the Second Edition
Foreword
Austin T. Turk
Acknowledgments
Controlling State Crime: Toward an Integrated Structural Model
Jeffrey Ian Ross
A State Action May Be Nasty But is Not Likely to Be a Crime
Ira Sharkansky
State Crime or Governmental Crime: Making Sense of the Conceptual Confusion
David O. Friedrichs
Controlling State Crimes by National Security Agencies
Pete Gill
Controlling Crimes by the Military
Jeffrey Ian Ross
State Crime by the Police and Its Control
Ken Menzies
Control and Prevention of Crimes Committed by State-Supported Educational Institutions
Natasha J. Cabrera
Crimes of the Capitalist State Against Labor
Kenneth D. Tunnell
Preventing State Crimes Against the Environment During Military Operations: The 1977 Environmental Modification Treaty
Raymond A. Zilinskas
International State-Sponsored Organizations to Control State Crime: The European Convention on Human Rights
Leon Hurwitz
A New Role for the International Court of Justice: Adjudicator of International and State Transnational Crimes
Barbara M. Yarnold
Can States Commit Crimes? The Limits of Formal International Law
Luis F. Molina
Eliminating State Crime by Abolishing the State
Brian Martin
The Future of Controlling State Crime: Where Do We Go from Here?
Jeffrey Ian Ross
Contributors
Index
