Academic research on state crime has focused on the illegal actions of individuals and organizations (i

Introduction to the Second Edition

Foreword

Austin T. Turk

Acknowledgments

Controlling State Crime: Toward an Integrated Structural Model

Jeffrey Ian Ross

A State Action May Be Nasty But is Not Likely to Be a Crime

Ira Sharkansky

State Crime or Governmental Crime: Making Sense of the Conceptual Confusion

David O. Friedrichs

Controlling State Crimes by National Security Agencies

Pete Gill

Controlling Crimes by the Military

Jeffrey Ian Ross

State Crime by the Police and Its Control

Ken Menzies

Control and Prevention of Crimes Committed by State-Supported Educational Institutions

Natasha J. Cabrera

Crimes of the Capitalist State Against Labor

Kenneth D. Tunnell

Preventing State Crimes Against the Environment During Military Operations: The 1977 Environmental Modification Treaty

Raymond A. Zilinskas

International State-Sponsored Organizations to Control State Crime: The European Convention on Human Rights

Leon Hurwitz

A New Role for the International Court of Justice: Adjudicator of International and State Transnational Crimes

Barbara M. Yarnold

Can States Commit Crimes? The Limits of Formal International Law

Luis F. Molina

Eliminating State Crime by Abolishing the State

Brian Martin

The Future of Controlling State Crime: Where Do We Go from Here?

Jeffrey Ian Ross

Contributors

Index

Jeffrey Ian Ross is professor in the School of Criminology at the University of Baltimore. Ross has researched, written, and lectured primarily on corrections, policing, political crime, state crime, crimes of the powerful, violence, street culture, and crime and justice in American Indian communities for over two decades. His work has appeared in many academic journals and books, as well as popular media. In 2018, Ross was given the Hans W. Mattick Award, "for an individual who has made a distinguished contribution to the field of Criminology & Criminal Justice practice," from the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 2020, he received the John Howard Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences' Division of Corrections.