ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |35 pages
Introduction
part I|49 pages
Culture, ideology and the crimes of the powerful
chapter 4|13 pages
Corporate criminals constructing white-collar crime
part II|67 pages
Crimes of globalization
chapter 5|16 pages
Capital and catharsis in the Nigerian petroleum extraction industry
part III|53 pages
Corporate crimes
chapter 11|14 pages
Corporate-financial crime scandals
chapter 12|11 pages
Corporate social responsibility, corporate surveillance and neutralizing corporate resistance
chapter 13|11 pages
Walmart's sustainability initiative
part IV|53 pages
Environmental crimes
chapter 15|12 pages
Privatization, pollution and power
chapter 16|12 pages
Unfettered fracking
part V|39 pages
Financial crimes
chapter 18|13 pages
Bad banks
chapter 19|11 pages
Financial misrepresentation and fraudulent manipulation
part VI|58 pages
State crimes
chapter 21|15 pages
Transnational institutional torturers
chapter 24|13 pages
Gendered forms of state crime
part VII|37 pages
State-corporate crimes
chapter 25|10 pages
Blacking out the Gulf
part VIII|42 pages
State-routinized crimes
chapter 28|11 pages
Organized crime in a transitional economy
chapter 29|15 pages
Institutionalized abuse of police power
chapter 30|14 pages
The appearances and realities of corruption in Greece
part IX|96 pages
Failing to control the crimes of the powerful