Book Description
Despite the enormous economic, physical and social impacts of crimes committed by states and corporations, they are still relatively under-researched within contemporary social science—partly because of the perpetrator’s ability to evade critical scrutiny. The contributions in this book map out the parameters of a political economy of researching the powerful, marking out the major problems encountered, and identifying ways in which these problems might be overcome or circumnavigated. To this end, the book brings together original essays which reflect upon researching the powerful in Britain, Canada, Finland, Ireland, Spain, Turkey and the United States. Together these chapters advance our understandings of what corporate and state power is, how this power operates, and how it might be more effectively resisted.
Unmasking the Crimes of the Powerful: Scrutinizing States and Corporations SYNOPSIS
The fact that corporate and state crimes cause far more economic, physical, and social damage than conventional understandings of crime receives at best "empty, gestural acknowledgement" by contemporary criminology, argue Tombs (sociology, Liverpool John Moores U., UK) and Whyte (criminology, U. of Leeds, UK). Viewing this work as counter- hegemonic, they present 13 papers that seek to map out the parameters of a political economy of researching the powerful, describing ways that power causes problems for researchers and exploring ways of overcoming such obstacles. They have attempted to make the proceedings international in flavor. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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