State Crime is the first peer-reviewed, international journal that seeks to disseminate leading research on the illicit practices of states. The concept of state crime is not confined to legally recognised states but can include any authority that exerts political and military control over a substantial territory (e.g the FARC). The journal’s focus is a reflection of the growing awareness within criminology that state criminality is endemic and acts as a significant barrier to security and development. Contributions from a variety of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives are welcomed. Topics covered by the journal include, torture; genocide and other forms of government and politically organised mass killing; war crimes; state-corporate crime; state-organised crime; natural disasters exacerbated by government (in)action; asylum and refugee policy and practice; state terror; political and economic corruption; and resistance to state violence and corruption.

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The contents of this first issue is as follows:

Introduction

The Advance of State Crime Scholarship

Penny Green, Tony Ward and Kristian Lasslett

Articles

Changing Contours of World Order

Noam Chomsky

From the Horse's Mouth: Research on Perpetrators in Guatemala

Jennifer Schirmer

State Torture: Interviewing Perpetrators, Discovering Facilitators, Theorizing Cross-Nationally - Proposing "Torture 101"

Martha K. Huggins

British State Complicity in Genocide: Rwanda 1994

Hazel Cameron

Between Crime and Doxa: Researching the Worlds of State-Corporate Elites

David Whyte

Public Criminology, Victim Agency and Researching State Crime

Michael Grewcock

Power, Struggle and State Crime: Researching through Resistance

Kristian Lasslett

Reviews

S. Pickering, Women, Borders, and Violence: Current Issues in Asylum, Forced Migration, and Trafficking

Ratna Kapur

A. Alvarez, Genocidal Crimes

Nestar Russell

R. Dienst, The Bonds of Debt: Borrowing against the Common Good

Steve Tombs