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In An introduction to political crime, Jeffrey Ian Ross provides the most comprehensive and contemporary analysis of political crime addressing both violent and nonviolent crimes committed by and against the state (e.g. political corruption, illegal domestic surveillance, and human rights violations) in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and other advanced industrialized democracies since the 1960s. Written by a respected social scientist, this book reviews appropriate theories of political crime and explains numerous definitional and conceptual issues, causes of political crimes, ways to control it, and effects of different types of political crime. Ross integrates new scholarship on state crime, and post 9/11 developments in both scholarship and current affairs and uses numerous examples to help readers understand the issues. The book is supported by a companion website, containing additional materials for both students and lecturers, which is available from the link above

Inhaltsanalyse von staatsanwaltlichen Umweltstrafverfahrensakten.

Themen: Der Erhebungsbogen für die inhaltsanalytische Verkodung der
Akten ist weitgehend identisch mit dem in der ZA-Studien-Nr. 1443
verwendeten Instrument. Die Abweichungen beziehen sich lediglich darauf,
daß die Ermittlungen und die Verfahrenserledigung nicht durch die
Bußgeldbehörde, sondern durch die Staatsanwaltschaft erfolgten.

Demographie: Geschlecht; Familienstand; Geburtsjahrgang; Nationalität;
Wohnortgröße; Beruf; berufliche Position; Schichtzugehörigkeit des
Befragten.

Modes of accountability : events of closure, rites of repetition -- On money and the memory of loss -- Public apologies, dignity, and performative redress -- Reconciliation after ethnic cleansing : listening, retribution, affiliation -- The state of war crimes following the Israel-Hezbollah War -- Terror compassion, and the limits of identification : counter-transference and rites of commemoration in Lebanon -- Responsibility after military intervention : what is regime change? What is occupation? -- Does the United States want democratization in Iraq? Anthropological reflections on the export of political form -- The external ascription of defeat and collective punishment -- What do election rituals mean? Representation, sacrifice, and cynical reason -- Politics without a head : is the love parade a new form of political identification? -- Is the United States Europe's other?

Current media and political discourse on crime has long ignored crimes committed by States themselves, despite their greater financial and human toll. For two decades, scholars have examined how and why States violate their own laws and international law and explored what can be done to reduce or prevent these injustices. Through essays by leading scholars, State Crime offers a set of cases exemplifying state criminality along with various methods for controlling governmental transgressions. It is an indispensable resource for those who examine the behavior of States and those who study crime