- Notes on Contributors
- Guided Tour of the Online Resource Centre
- Introduction: The new vision
- 1. The foundations of sociological theories of crime
- 2. Criminalizaton: historical, legal, and criminological perspectives
- 3. Punishment and welfare: social problems and social structures
- 4. Penal populism and epistemic crime control
- 5. Political economy, crime, and criminal justice
- 6. Delivering more with less: austerity and the politics of law and order
- 7. Crime data and criminal statistics: a critical reflection
- 8. Ethnicities, racism, crime, and criminal justice
- 9. Feminist criminology: inequalities, powerlessness, and justice
- 10. Public opinion, crime, and criminal justice
- 11. News power, crime and media justice
- 12. Social harm and zemiology
- 13. Crime and consumer culture
- 14. Green criminology
- 15. Criminology, punishment, and the state in a globalized society
- 16. Border criminology and the changing nature of penal power
- 17. Criminology and transitional justice
- 18. Rethinking comparative criminal justice
- 19. Understanding state crime
- 20. Making and managing terrorism and counter-terrorism: the view from criminology
- 21. Religion, crime, and violence
- 22. Character, circumstances, and the causes of crime: towards an analytical criminology
- 23. Crime and the city: urban encounters, civility, and tolerance
- 24. Prison architecture and design: perspectives from criminology and carceral geography
- 25. Interpersonal violence on the British Isles, 1200–2016
- 26. Urban criminal collaborations
- 27. Developmental and life-course criminology: innovations, impacts, and applications
- 28. Mental health, mental disabilities, and crime
- 29. Domestic violence
- 30. Prostitution and sex work
- 31. Drugs: consumption, addiction, and treatment
- 32. White-collar and corporate crime
- 33. Desistance from crime and implications for offender rehabilitation
- 34. Policing and the police
- 35. Crime prevention and community safety
- 36. Principles, pragmatism, and prohibition: explaining continuity and change in british drug policy
- 37. Sentencing
- 38. Punishment in the community: evolution, expansion, and moderation
- 39. Reconfiguring penal power
- 40. Marketizing criminal justice
- 41. Youth justice
- 42. Restorative justice in the twenty-first century: making emotions mainstream
- 43. Criminological engagements
- Index
(p. 438) 19. Understanding state crime
- Chapter:
- (p. 438) 19. Understanding state crime
- Author(s):
Penny Green
and Tony Ward
- DOI:
- 10.1093/he/9780198719441.003.0020
This chapter discusses the concept of state crime and proposes a distinction between ‘core state crimes’ of organized murder, rape, theft, etc., and more ambiguous criminal activity. Focusing mainly on core state crimes, it reviews some of the main approaches to explaining state violence and corruption. It then explores the methods used by social scientists to study state crime. While ethnographic fieldwork is the central method of research, it is complemented by a range of other sources of quantitative and qualitative data. These include, for example, the analysis of social media content and satellite imagery.
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- Notes on Contributors
- Guided Tour of the Online Resource Centre
- Introduction: The new vision
- 1. The foundations of sociological theories of crime
- 2. Criminalizaton: historical, legal, and criminological perspectives
- 3. Punishment and welfare: social problems and social structures
- 4. Penal populism and epistemic crime control
- 5. Political economy, crime, and criminal justice
- 6. Delivering more with less: austerity and the politics of law and order
- 7. Crime data and criminal statistics: a critical reflection
- 8. Ethnicities, racism, crime, and criminal justice
- 9. Feminist criminology: inequalities, powerlessness, and justice
- 10. Public opinion, crime, and criminal justice
- 11. News power, crime and media justice
- 12. Social harm and zemiology
- 13. Crime and consumer culture
- 14. Green criminology
- 15. Criminology, punishment, and the state in a globalized society
- 16. Border criminology and the changing nature of penal power
- 17. Criminology and transitional justice
- 18. Rethinking comparative criminal justice
- 19. Understanding state crime
- 20. Making and managing terrorism and counter-terrorism: the view from criminology
- 21. Religion, crime, and violence
- 22. Character, circumstances, and the causes of crime: towards an analytical criminology
- 23. Crime and the city: urban encounters, civility, and tolerance
- 24. Prison architecture and design: perspectives from criminology and carceral geography
- 25. Interpersonal violence on the British Isles, 1200–2016
- 26. Urban criminal collaborations
- 27. Developmental and life-course criminology: innovations, impacts, and applications
- 28. Mental health, mental disabilities, and crime
- 29. Domestic violence
- 30. Prostitution and sex work
- 31. Drugs: consumption, addiction, and treatment
- 32. White-collar and corporate crime
- 33. Desistance from crime and implications for offender rehabilitation
- 34. Policing and the police
- 35. Crime prevention and community safety
- 36. Principles, pragmatism, and prohibition: explaining continuity and change in british drug policy
- 37. Sentencing
- 38. Punishment in the community: evolution, expansion, and moderation
- 39. Reconfiguring penal power
- 40. Marketizing criminal justice
- 41. Youth justice
- 42. Restorative justice in the twenty-first century: making emotions mainstream
- 43. Criminological engagements
- Index
