ABSTRACT
This chapter defines the market-driven nature of the crimes of the powerful and of state-routinized crime (SRC). It elaborates on three examples of normalization or conventionalization and how the state routinization of crime and crime control works. These include: the police use and abuse of force; the counterterrorist use of corporate torture; and the Wall Street use of securities fraud. Most importantly, the logics of the contradictions of capital accumulation, consumption, and reproduction are what drives the contours of the securitization of the corporate state and of the state routinization of crime. Historically, state-routinized crime control of the powerful are situated within and reify the changing and prevailing relations of social and political power. In the contemporary world of crony capitalism, legalized corruption, and structured unaccountability nothing succeeds with such regularity as the active failures of the government to obstruct the crimes of the powerful, especially those committed by the corporate state and its agents or by multinational corporations.
