1st Edition

Market Criminology State-Corporate Crime in the Petroleum Extraction Industry

By Ifeanyi Ezeonu Copyright 2018
172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

Building on original research into the petroleum industry and on the theory of crimes of globalization, this book introduces the concept of Market Criminology: the criminology of preventable market-generated harms and the criminogenic effects of market rationality in variegated forms of capitalism. Ifeanyi Ezeonu explores the ascendance of the fundamentalist form of market economy in Nigeria;... Read more

1. Introduction

2. Commerce, Plunder and the Illegitimate Birth of the Nigerian State

3. "In the Long Run we are all Dead": Historicizing our Journey to a Market Society

4. Market Criminology: An Ontological Recalibration of a Discipline

5. Petroleum Resources and the Plunder of the Niger Delta: Lessons on Market Criminology

6. Public Security Challenges in the Niger Delta: The Catharsis of Community Resistance

7. Conclusion: Extending the Periscope of Criminology to Market Rationality

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Ifeanyi Ezeonu is Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Brock University, Canada.