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
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.
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 crimeor why there is no
corporate crime on USA Networks 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. Walmarts 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
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Gregg Barak is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Eastern Michigan University and the former Visiting Distinguished Professor in the College of Justice & Safety at Eastern Kentucky University. In 2003 he became the 27th Fellow of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and in 2007 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Critical Division of the American Society of Criminology. Barak is the author and/or editor of 20 books, including the award winning titles Gimme Shelter: A Social History of Homelessness in Contemporary America (1991) and Theft of a Nation: Wall Street Looting and Federal Regulatory Colluding (2012). His most recent book is the 4th edition of Class, Race, Gender, and Crime: The Social Realities of Justice in America (2015) with Paul Leighton and Allison Cotton.
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