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Unintended consequences of state action: how the kingpin strategy transformed the structure of violence in Mexico’s organized crime
This paper builds on social network analysis and structural balance theory to analyze, with a novel approach, some of the unintended consequences of...
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Theorizing State Crime
Today, while they are among the few, there are sociologists and criminologists who have taken the collective actions of the state as their principal...
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State Policy Dilemmas
This chapter provides a conversation with Brendan McQuade, an activist scholar, and two police trainers, Jeffrey Goltz and Jhon Sanabria. Brendan...
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Beyond police apologies: Concrete plans of action increase the public’s willingness to cooperate with police
ObjectiveThis experimental study examined if people are more willing to cooperate with police after police apologize and provide a plan of action to...
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The Neoliberal State: Then and Now
This chapter explores Steven Box’s contribution to our understanding of the neoliberal state, both when Power, Crime and Mystification (1983) was...
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The corporate legal profession’s role in global corruption: obligations and opportunities for contributing to collective action
Key corruption issues, like lack of transparency in beneficial ownership and money laundering, are inherently transnational. They are facilitated by...
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Vulnerability in the Face of Police Action
This chapter presents testimonies that account for self-perceptions about the greater or lesser vulnerability of the migratory group of belonging in...
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Conclusions: State Violence – Archives, Bodies, Territories
This concluding chapter argues that bodies are not just vessels of aggression but also crystallize specific historical conditions. They expose the...
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State-Crime Relations: Notes on a Necessary Literature
The aim of this article is to probe the entanglements between politics and organized crime—a question seldom addressed in political theory and in...
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State Funding Abuse by Change Factory
The case study examines the misuse of government funding by the Change Factory foundation, focusing on founder Marit Sanner’s role in deviant...
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Child Trafficking: Contemporary Action in the Twenty-First Century
This chapter will focus upon some of the contemporary action to address child trafficking and is divided into two respective sections. The first...
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Unpacking the political-criminal nexus in state-cybercrimes: a macro-level typology
Criminological literature on crime and deviance in cyberspace has boomed in recent years with most studies focusing on computer integrity crimes,...
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Ethical and conceptual challenges in researching human trafficking in Edo state, Nigeria
The aim of this paper is to further understanding on the ethical and conceptual challenges associated with researching human trafficking in Edo...
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State-corporate legal symbiosis and social harm: the case of the steel factory ‘Ilva’ in Taranto, Italy
For more than a decade, epidemiological surveys have shown that Taranto, Italy, has a critical health situation. In particular, two epidemiological...
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The state of the organ trade: Narratives of corruption in Egypt and Bangladesh
This paper provides a comparative analysis of the trade in human organs in Egypt and Bangladesh. The authors draw on extensive qualitative and...
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Corporate Crime, Regulation and the State
This chapter begins by acknowledging some of the remarkable achievements in Box’s contribution to the study of corporate crime. Then, by way of a...
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Corruption as state -corporate crime: the example of the health sector in Greece
The study analyses the relations and processes underpinning grand corruption in the health sector in Greece. Viewed from a systemic-structural...
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State Compensation of Exonerees in Capital Cases: the Chinese Experience
In 1994, China passed its first State Compensation Law (SCL) for wrongfully convicted individuals who can file claims for loss of life or freedom,...
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Funding Abuse by State Research Council
This case study examines the financial challenges faced by the Norwegian Research Council due to complexities in grant management and changes in...
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Juvenile Recidivism: An Examination of State Measurement Strategies
Scholars, practitioners, and policymakers have called for greater uniformity in state juvenile justice systems’ operationalizations of juvenile...
