'Introduction: The Advance of State Crime Scholarship (Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring 2012, pp. 5-7)'

• Introduction: The Advance of State Crime Scholarship, Penny Green, Tony Ward and Kristian Lasslett, State Crime Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 2012), pp 5 - 7

Summary

With this issue we launch the first journal devoted to the study of state crime – the violence and corruption perpetrated or instigated by governments that makes up much of the most serious criminal activity in today’s world. State crime is increasingly recognized as a sub-discipline of criminology, but while our own intellectual background is in this field, many of the most significant contributions to state crime scholarship come from anthropologists, psychologists, political scientists, and writers on international relations and foreign policy. Part of our
at the International State Crime Initiative (ISCI) (www.statecrime.org) has been to draw together this broad range of scholarship in a forum which more clearly articulates a defined intellectual field.

Connected Resources

• State Torture: Interviewing Perpetrators, Discovering Facilitators, Theorizing Cross-Nationality – Proposing “Torture 101” (Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring 2012, pp. 45-69)

• Between Crime And “Doxa”: Researching The Worlds of State-Corporate Elites (Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring 2012, pp. 80-108)

• British State Complicity in Genocide: Rwanda 1994 (Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring 2012, pp. 70-87)

• Public Criminology, Victim Agency and Researching State Crime (Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring 2012, pp. 109-125)

• Power, Struggle and State Crime: Researching Through Resistance (Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring 2012, pp. 126-148)

• Changing Contours of World Order (Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring 2012, pp. 8-26)

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  Penny Green (Co-Director)

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  Tony Ward (Co-Director)

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  Kristian Lasslett