State crime and resistance / / edited by Elizabeth Stanley and Jude McCulloch

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462780103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 0-203-10106-5; 1-283-84621-7; 1-136-23364-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (252 p.)
• Collana: Routledge Studies in Crime and Society
• Altri autori (Persone): McCullochJude; StanleyElizabeth <1972->
• Disciplina: 364.1
• Soggetti: State crimes; Human rights; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; State Crime and Resistance; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; List of acronyms and abbreviations; 1 Resistance to state crime; 2 Resisting state crime as a criminological project in the context of the Arab Spring; 3 Civil society, resistance and state crime; 4 Public criminology and the responsibility to speak in the prophetic voice concerning global warming; 5 The great escape: refugees, detention and resistance; 6 The politics of state crime and resistance: self-determination in Sri Lanka; 7 Resistance to state-corporate crimes in West Papua8 The race to defraud: state crime and the immiseration of Indigenous people; 9 'Frameworks of resistance': challenging the UK's securitization agenda; 10 Environmental activism and resistance to state-corporate crime; 11 Witnessing the gorgon: remarks on normative visuality in confronting state crime; 12 Music as resistance to state crime and violence; 13 Law for justice: the history of Community Legal Centres in Australia; 14 Hardening the rule of law and asylum seekers: exporting risk and the judicial censure of state illegality; 15 A global resistance movement? From human rights to international ; criminal justice16 The master's tools: can supranational law confront crimes of powerful states?; 17 Beyond state crime; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Within criminology 'the state' is often ignored as an actor or represented as a neutral force. While state crime studies have proliferated, criminologists have not paid attention to the history and impact of resistance to state crime. This book recognises that crimes of the state are far more serious and harmful than crimes committed by individuals, and considers how such crimes may be contested, prevented, challenged or stopped.Gathering together key scholars from the UK, USA, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, this book offers a deepened understanding of state crime through th