Dynamics Of Political Crime

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 208 pages
• Published by: Sage Publications, Inc. October 2002
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0803970455
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0803970458
• Book Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.8 x 0.6 inches
• Weighs: 8 ounces

Product Review
"This book is not only an great and up-to-date review of the literature on political crime, but it also builds on the strengths of previous research in developing an interdisciplinary explanation that implicates individuals, situations, organizations, and resource adequacies. The book is a well-informed, balanced, and compelling presentation of traditional and contemporary theoretical concerns that confront directly the interaction between antisystemic crime and state crime. This book is a superb engagement that finally moves crime research well beyond its ethnocentric borders toward a more inclusionary framework of comparative thought." (Livy Visano 20070604)

"Ross's book will likely provide hours of discussion and opportunities for students and readers to deconstruct the text and to ascribe meaning to it." (Christopher A. Simon )

Product Description


In The Dynamics of Political Crime, Jeffrey Ian Ross provides the most comprehensive and contemporary discussion of the phenomenon of political crime -- crimes committed both by and against the state -- in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom during the past three decades.

 

Ross discusses both violent and nonviolent oppositional crimes, as well as state crimes such political corruption, illegal domestic surveillance, and human rights violations. Written by a recognized critical criminologist, this volume develops a new theory of political crime and thoroughly reviews definitional and conceptual issues, causes of political crimes, and ways to control it, and effects of different types of political crime.

 

Features of this text:

• Chapter 5, "Violent Oppositional Political Crimes: Terrorism," puts the events of September 11, 2001 in both a historical and contemporary perspectives.
• Easy to read and accessible, with biographies, set apart in boxes, of key researchers
• Covers the dominant oppositional crimes such as sedition, treason, and espionage

Recommended for both scholarly and classroom use at either the upper-division undergraduate or graduate levels. (20060824)

Reader Reviews
Written by an experienced criminologist Jeffrey Ian Ross (Assistant Professor, Division of Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Social Policy, Center for Comparative and International law, University of Baltimore, Maryland), The Dynamics Of Political Crime is an extensive look at the concept of political crime and various ways to control it. Studying both violent and nonviolent political crime including corruption, illegal domestic surveillance, human rights violation, bribery and more, The Dynamics Of Political Crime is an involved and informative account which is especially recommended for Criminology and Political Science reference collections and supplemental reading lists.