State Crime in the Global Age

State Crime in the Global Age brings together original writings from leading scholars of state crime to explore the causes and consequences of social harms flowing from the use and abuse of state power. The book breaks new ground by examining how globalisation has intensified potentials for state crime, by bringing novel theoretical understandings of the state to the study of state crime, and by exploring strategies for confronting state crime. Specific topics covered include the crimes of empire, the crimes of war, state sanctioned torture, state sacrifice of human lives, and judicial wrongdoing.Framing State Crime explores how we might theorise state crime, and locates contemporary state crimes in the context of increasing global integration. The Brutal Realities of State Crime provides analyses of five international and two domestic varieties of state crime. Responding to State Crrime addresses the problems and prospects for confronting state crime through strategies such as transitional and transnational justice practices and a 'public criminology' of state crime.Scholars, students and informed citizens concerned with the grave threats created by the misuses of state power will find valuable insights in State Crime in the Global Age.