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The author, who has interviewed human rights activists in Burma, analyses the deeply entrenched and unchecked Islamophobia against the Rohingya, who have lived at least two centuries in Burma and yet are refused citizenship. They and Muslims from around the country have been subject to a recent deadly wave of anti-Muslim violence and yet politicians, including Aung San Suu Kyi, are unwilling to address the institutionalised racism, emphasising that constitutional change has to come first. The persecution of the Rohingya will continue, argues the author, while foreign governments are so willing to make political and economic deals with the racist former junta.

Civil society in uncivil states -- Motivating resistance -- Concrete walls and snowdrops : state crime and the dialectics of resistance -- "The truth is tenacious" : gathering and communicating information -- Legality, legitimacy and human rights -- "A way of dignifying life" : religion and spirituality -- "Land is life" : dispossession, displacement and resistance -- Politics, charity, and civil society -- Violence : civil society's final frontier -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Appendix CSO profiles -- Index.

This is an introductory text which defines the field and sets out the parameters of state crime in all its forms: state violence, corruption, transnational crime, state involvement in corporate crime, in avoidable "natural" disasters, torture and illegal punishment, criminal policing, war crimes and genocide. It incorporates a thorough review of the themes, issues, and debates central to the existing literature on state crime, drawn from a range of disciplines, including criminology, human rights, international relations and political science; and develops a theoretical approach to understanding the boundaries of state crime in relation to both deviance and human rights. A distinctive feature of the book is its original empirical research which uses diverse international and thematically organized case-studies to inform it

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