Foreword vii
William J. Chambliss
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Crimes of State and Other Forms of Collective
Group Violence by Nonstate Actors 1
M. Cherif Bassiouni
Part I Crimes of the State
1 Revisiting Crimes by the Capitalist State 35
Gregg Barak
2 The Crime of the Last Century—And of This Century? 49
David O. Friedrichs
3 Nuclear Weapons, International Law, and the
Normalization of State Crime 68
Ronald C. Kramer and David Kauzlarich
4 Empire and Exceptionalism: The Bush Administration’s
Criminal War against Iraq 94
Ronald C. Kramer and Raymond J. Michalowski
5 Do Empires Commit State Crime? 122
Peter Iadicola
6 Burundi: A History of Conflict and State Crime 142
Kara Hoofnagle
7 Legal Precedent, Jurisprudence, and State Crime:
Pinochet and Crimes against Humanity 162
Dawn L. Rothe and Michael Bohlander
Part II Controlling State Crime
8 Reinventing Controlling State Crime and Varieties
of State Crime and Its Control 185
Jeffrey Ian Ross
9 Complementary and Alternative Domestic Responses
to State Crime 198
Dawn L. Rothe
10 The Fairness of Gacaca 219
Roelof H. Haveman and Alphonse Muleefu
11 Assassination of Regime Elites versus Collateral Civilian
Damage 246
Michael Bohlander and Dawn L. Rothe
12 How to Restore Justice in Serbia? A Closer Look at
Peoples’ Opinions about Postwar Reconciliation 263
Stephan Parmentier, Marta Valiñas, and Elmar
Weitekamp
13 The Current Status and Role of the International
Criminal Court 276
Christopher W. Mullins
References 295
Contributors 32
Subtitle: Current
Perspectives Editors: Dawn L. Rothe and
Christopher W. Mullins and with an introduction by M. Cherif Bassiouni Subject:Sociology,
Criminology
Paper ISBN:
978-0-8135-4901-9 Cloth ISBN:
978-0-8135-4900-2 Pages:
368 pages, 7 tables Publication Date: November 2010 Series:
Critical
Issues in Crime and Society
Praise:
"An admirable collection of case studies by
leading scholars that illuminate the historical and modern contours of
state crime."—Barbara
Perry, Professor, Associate Dean, Faculty of Social Science and
Humanities, University of Ontario Institute of Technology Description:
Current media and
political discourse on crime has long ignored crimes committed by
States themselves, despite their greater financial and human toll. For
the past 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 a collection of essays by
leading scholars in the field, State
Crime offers a set of cases exemplifying state criminality along
with various methods for controlling governmental transgressions. With
topics ranging from crimes of aggression to nuclear weapons to the
construction and implementation of social controls, this volume is an
indispensable resource for those who examine the behavior of States and
those who study crime in its varied forms.
About the Editors:
DAWN L. ROTHE is an
assistant professor of criminology at Old Dominion University. She is
the author of State Criminality: The
Crime of All Crimes, Symbolic Gestures and the Generation of Global
Social Control, and coauthor with Christopher W. Mullins of Blood, Power, and Bedlam: Violations of
International Criminal Law in Post-Colonial Africa.
CHRISTOPHER W. MULLINS is an assistant professor of criminology
and criminal justice at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He has
authored or coauthored several books including Holding Your Square: Masculinities,
Streetlife, and Violence.
