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States and Illegal Practices [Hardback]

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  • Formāts: Hardback, 288 pages, height x width x depth: 216x138x20 mm, weight: 491 g, bibliography, index
  • Izdošanas datums: 03-Jan-1999
  • Izdevniecība: Berg Publishers
  • ISBN-10: 1859732577
  • ISBN-13: 9781859732571
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  • Formāts: Hardback, 288 pages, height x width x depth: 216x138x20 mm, weight: 491 g, bibliography, index
  • Izdošanas datums: 03-Jan-1999
  • Izdevniecība: Berg Publishers
  • ISBN-10: 1859732577
  • ISBN-13: 9781859732571
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Joining theories of states and state formation with theories of illegal practices, this pioneering book traces the unholy alliance of official practices with criminality. Criminal subcultures, mafias and gangs have been the subject of a great deal of attention, as have formal policy approaches of the state. However, the interaction of state police apparatuses with illegal practices has been neglected, despite the recent Foucauldian emphasis on discourses of power, order and disorder.

Written by leading experts in the fields of anthropology and history, this book asks why illegal practices -- including corruption and protection rackets -- do not disappear, but continue to thrive. It examines the development of transnational illegal networks, such as the narcotics trade and the new trade in environmentally restricted commodities, as well as how culture, ethnicity and economic considerations drive illegal practices and influence state policy. Wide-ranging in scope, this interdisciplinary book will appeal to anyone studying the sociology of crime and of the state, political science, criminal justice and the law, the anthropology of law and of the state and the history of crime.


Joining theories of states and state formation with theories of illegal practices, this pioneering book traces the unholy alliance of official practices with criminality. Criminal subcultures, mafias and gangs have been the subject of a great deal of attention, as have formal policy approaches of the state. However, the interaction of state police apparatuses with illegal practices has been neglected, despite the recent Foucauldian emphasis on discourses of power, order and disorder.Written by leading experts in the fields of anthropology and history, this book asks why illegal practices -- including corruption and protection rackets -- do not disappear, but continue to thrive. It examines the development of transnational illegal networks, such as the narcotics trade and the new trade in environmentally restricted commodities, as well as how culture, ethnicity and economic considerations drive illegal practices and influence state policy. Wide-ranging in scope, this interdisciplinary book will appeal to anyone studying the sociology of crime and of the state, political science, criminal justice and the law, the anthropology of law and of the state and the history of crime.

Recenzijas

'States and Illegal Practices deserves a wide readership. Justice cannot be done here to the ten contributions that make up this book An excellent edited collection.'British Journal of Criminology'A breath of fresh air for those sociologists and criminologists interested in the various relationships formed between states and criminals.'Contemporary Sociology 'An evasion-based theory of policy and state transformation probably would require distinctions to be made between corruption and other forms of rule evasion, and betweeen short-term and long-term effects. States and Illegal Practices provides much raw material for further developments along these lines, and interested researchers should buy, beg, borrow - but not steal - a copy.'American Journal of Sociology

Papildus informācija

Also available in paperback, 9781859732625 GBP17.99 (January, 1999)
1 States and Illegal Practices: An Overview 1(24) Josiah McC. Heyman Alan Smart 2 Brigandage, Piracy, Capitalism, and State-Formation: Transnational Crime from a Historical World-Systems Perspective 25(38) Thomas W. Gallant 3 State and Shadow State in Northern Peru circa 1900: Illegal Political Networks and the Problem of State Boundaries 63(36) David Nugent 4 Predatory Rule and Illegal Economic Practices 99(30) Alan Smart 5 Requiem for a Drug Lord: State and Commodity in the Career of Khun Sa 129(40) Alfred W. McCoy 6 Is Transparency Possible? The Political-Economic and Epistemological Implications of Cold War Conspiracies and Subterfuge in Italy 169(30) Jane Schneider Peter Schneider 7 Russian Protection Rackets and the Appropriation of Law and Order 199(34) Caroline Humphrey 8 Neoliberalism, Environmentalism, and Scientific Knowledge: Redefining Use Rights in the Gulf of California Fisheries 233(28) Marcela Vasquez-Leon 9 Adolescent Violence, State Processes, and the Local Context of Moral Panic 261(24) Mercer L. Sullivan Barbara Miller 10 State Escalation of Force: A Vietnam/US-Mexico Border Analogy 285(30) Josiah McC. Heyman List of contributors 315(4) Index 319
Josiah Heyman, Department of Sociology and Anthropolgy, University of Texas at El Paso