Handbook on State Criminality

Name: Handbook on State Criminality
Brand: Edward Elgar Publishing
SKU: 9781035320271
Price: 2522.00 HKD
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Author: Dawn L.;. Collins Victoria E. Rothe; Calli M. Cain
ISBN: 9781035320271

Edited by Dawn L. · . Collins Victoria E. Rothe · Calli M. Cain

New Arrival Edward Elgar Publishing August 2026

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ISBN-13: 9781035320271
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication: August 2026
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This authoritative Handbook explores new developments in scholarship on state criminality, highlighting how private capital, corporations, and states’ interests intersect. Expert contributors demonstrate that state criminality is not a deviation from governance but one of its central logics, embedded in capitalism and neoliberal logics, patriarchalism, empire, and global governance.

Reflecting recent global events and concerns, the Handbook examines digital governance, financial harm, gender, colonialism, immigration and atrocity violence. From environmental harms, and trafficking, to crypto, sports, and space expansionism, the Handbook moves beyond the earlier definitional issues and efforts of establishing the topic as a legitimate field of inquiry. It provides a cross-section of the variety of work that is encapsulated under the umbrella of state criminality.

The Handbook of State Criminality is a valuable resource for scholars and students of white-collar crime, state and corporate crime, crimes of the powerful, as well as politics, public policy, and sociology more broadly. Practitioners in criminal law and policymakers regulating global governance will also greatly benefit from the insights provided.

Editors’ introduction to 'Handbook on State Criminality' 1; Dawn L. Rothe, Victoria E. Collins, and Calli M. Cain; PART I. DIGITAL GOVERNANCE, FINANCIAL HARM, AND GLOBAL ACCOUNTABILITY; 1.
Corporate complicity in international crimes 12: Isabel Schoultz and Maximilian Funder; 2.
Ritualized isomorphism, anti-corruption monitoring, and the transnational political order 24: Steven Bittle and Jon Frauley; 3.
The blockchain state: crypto-assets, authoritarianism, and the legalization of financial harm 35: Jose Atiles; 4.
Digital sovereignty, material atrocities: social media corporations as state criminal actors 51: Rachel E. Davis; PART II. ENVIRONMENTAL HARM AND BEYOND; 5.
The state, criminality, and environmental harm 65: Rob White; 6.
Twin apocalyptic state crimes: the nexus between nuclear weapons and climate change 80: Ronald C. Kramer; 7.
The epitome of state-corporate crime, environmental destruction, and space expansionism 93: Victoria E. Collins and Dawn L. Rothe; 8.
The cosmic hall of mirrors: a criminological imagination of the statecorporate power, science fiction, and space exploration triad 107: Yarin Eski; PART III. GENDER, CULTURE, AND RESISTANCE; 9.
Queering state crime 122: Emily Lenning and Sara Brightman; 10.
Woman abuse in sports-related contexts: the contribution of the state 135: Walter S. DeKeseredy; 11.
Where’s the joke? An abolition feminist critique of visual humor regarding state rape 150: Vivian Swayne; 12.
Musical resistance to gendered state crime in Iran 164: David Kauzlarich; PART IV. EMPIRE, COLONIALISM, AND HISTORICAL VIOLENCE; 13.
Colonization, coloniality, and state crime: decolonizing criminological thought 177: Ian Warren, Tatiana Corrales, and Emma Ryan; 14.
Decolonizing state crime criminology: mainstreaming Southern justice mechanisms to deal with colonial crimes 191: Valeria Vegh Weis; 15.
A haunting memory: the ghosts of Gettysburg and state-sponsored structural violence 205: Favian Alejandro Martín, Kevin Revier, Elizabeth Bittel, and Serena Goodridge; 16.
The invisible empire: latent imperialism in United States public opinion surveys 219: Daniel J. Patten and Josh R. Klein; PART V. IMMIGRATION, TRAFFICKING, ATROCITY VIOLENCE, AND MORE; 17.
The leviathan: the role of the state in atrocity violence 236: Christopher W. Mullins; 18.
Unmasking harm: immigration, nonprofits, and state-corporate crime 250: Maya Pagni Barak; 19.
Superpower? More like super-predator: calculated kindness and the predatory nature of the United States’ Special Immigrant Visa Program 265: Sarah Pedigo Kulzer; 20.
State criminality and human trafficking: are the “superhero” states really the villain? 279: Calli M. Cain; 21.
Donald Trump as the Houdini of state-organized crime: a snapshot of the unlawful and anti-constitutional president of the United States 297: Gregg Barak