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

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.?

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