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.
| ISBN: | 9781847426802 |
| Publication date: | 27th April 2012 |
| Author: | Jeffrey Ian Ross |
| Publisher: | Policy Press an imprint of Bristol University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 209 pages |
| Genres: |
Crime and criminology |
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.
An Introduction to Political Crime features in the following genres: Crime and criminology
An Introduction to Political Crime is available in Paperback, Hardback
An Introduction to Political Crime was written by Jeffrey Ian Ross and published by Policy Press an imprint of Bristol University Press
An Introduction to Political Crime has 209 pages