Crimes of states and powerful elites : a collection of case studies /
edited and co-written by Claudia Radiven and Simon Prideaux.
Bok Engelsk 2021 · Electronic books.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (238 pages)
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| Utgave | 1st ed.
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| Opplysninger | Cover -- Front Matter -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Chapters Int-con -- Introduction -- Book Outline -- Contemporary Associations -- Definitions -- Corporate Crime -- White- Collar Crime -- Professional Crime and Professional Criminals -- Social Harm -- References -- Chapter One Disasters in Aberfan and Grenfell -- Aberfan: An Act of God or Corporate Criminality? -- Introduction -- Aberfan: An Example of NCB Negligence -- Corporate Crime and Further Elaboration -- Aberfan as a Corporate Crime -- Social Harm -- A Final Word -- The Grenfell Tower Fire: A Tragedy of Negligence -- A Contextual Introduction -- The Grenfell Tower Disaster: An Economic State Crime? -- Housing and Inequality as a Contributing Factor to the Grenfell Tower Tragedy -- Social Harm -- Failures Leading up to the Tragedy -- Failures during the Grenfell Tower Fire -- Failures in the Aftermath of the Disaster -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter Two Medico: Big Pharma and the Flint Water Crisis -- The Crisis of Criminal Big Pharma: Turing and Valeant Pharmaceuticals' Drug Pricing Strategies, the Wider American Pharmaceutical Industry and Implications for Global Health -- Context -- Defining Corporate Crime -- The Case of Turing and Valeant Pharmaceuticals and the Pricing Strategies of Big Pharma -- Implications for the United States and Global Health -- Deception, Criminality, Responsibility: Research and Development of New Drugs -- Concluding Observations -- The Flint Water Crisis: A Case of Environmental State-Agency Crime, Capitalist (Im)morality and Resistance -- Contextual Introduction -- Criminal Charges and Beyond -- Capitalist Immorality? -- Environmental State-Agency Crime and the Immoral State -- Social Harm and Resistance -- In Conclusion -- References.. - Chapter Three Genocide: The Rohingya and Forced Sterilisation of Women of Colour in the United States -- State Crime in Myanmar: The Abuse of the Rohingya -- Introduction -- Context -- Defining the 'Crime' -- Social Harm -- Actors Involved -- Criminological Analysis -- Investigations -- A Final Warning -- The Coercive Sterilisation of American Women of Colour: Genocidal Capacity and the Welfare State -- Introductory Remarks -- The Case and Crime -- Genocidal Capacity and Language as a Catalyst for Criminality -- Tracking Race and Gender in Criminological Theory -- Using Social Harm Theory to Locate Responsibility and Accountability -- Conclusion: The Legacy of Sterilisation Abuse -- References -- Chapter Four State Crime, Corporate Crime and Organised Crime in the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and the Congo -- United Kingdom Government Sanctioned Sales to Saudi Arabia as a Crime of the Powerful -- Introduction -- Historical Context of Arms Sales and the Yemeni Civil War -- Breaches in International Humanitarian Law -- Regulatory Bodies and Disproportionate Power -- The Social Harms of State-Sponsored Terrorism -- A Final Dilemma -- Guns, Gangs and iPhones: The Conflict and Corruption in the Democratic Republic of the Congo -- Introductory Remarks -- State Crime -- Organised Crime -- Globalisation and Capitalism -- International Legislation and Self-Regulation: A Brief Summation -- Words of Optimism and Conclusion -- References -- Chapter Five Organised Crime: County Lines in the United Kingdom and the Problem of Bosnian 'Peacekeepers' -- County Lines in the United Kingdom: An Investigation into Organisation, Vulnerability and Government Accountability -- Context -- Defining and Categorising County Lines as Organised Crime -- Implications of Defining County Lines as Organised Crime -- Using a Social Harm Perspective to Understand County Lines.. - Preventative Strategies for Reducing County Lines Operations -- Present-Day Observations -- The UN Peacekeepers as an Organised Criminal Gang in Bosnia -- Introduction -- Organised Crime and the Applicability of the Concept -- Harmful Effects of 'Peacekeeping' Activities -- Structural Barriers Facing Bosnian Victims -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter Six Colonial Crimes: The Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand and Residential Schools in Canada -- The Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi: A Case Study of State Immorality -- Opening Remarks -- The Signing of Two Treaties -- The Land Grabs -- The Impacts of Colonisation on the Maori -- The Waitangi Tribunal and Government Responses -- The United Nations Report -- A Parting Word -- Canadian Residential Schools -- An Introduction to State Crime -- Canadian Residential Schools: History and Intent -- Living in the Schools -- The 'Survivor' Controversy -- Life after Residential Schooling -- Cultural Genocide -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter Seven Internment: Yarl's Wood and the Magdalene Laundries -- Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre -- Introduction -- Background -- State Crime and the Appalling Healthcare Provision and Violence in YWIRC -- The Detention of Pregnant Women -- State-Corporate Crime and Immorality -- Political Crime and Immorality -- The Detention of Asylum Seekers -- Breaching Rule 35 of the UK's Detention Centre Rules -- A Social Harm Perspective -- Concluding Remarks -- The Magdalene Laundries -- A Contextual Introduction -- The Catholic Church -- 'Black-Collar Crime' -- The Magdalene Laundries in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- The Changing Nature of the Twentieth-Century Laundries -- State Denial and Legitimisation -- The United Nations Committee against Torture -- The McAleese Report and State Collusion -- Criticisms of the Report.. - State Apology, Compensation and Social Harm -- Words of Caution -- References -- Conclusion -- Historical Warnings -- Cultural and Religious Caveats -- References -- End Matter -- Index.. - A collection of case studies investigating the crimes of the powerful, the social harms caused and the perpetuation of inequalities through lack of prosecution.
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| ISBN | 1-78527-988-2. - 1-78527-989-0
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