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State-Corporate Crime and the Commodification of Victimhood: The Toxic Legacy of Trafigura’s Ship of Death book cover

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State-Corporate Crime and the Commodification of Victimhood The Toxic Legacy of Trafigura’s Ship of Death

By Thomas MacManus Copyright 2018
194 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

194 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

194 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book highlights the continuing impunity enjoyed by corporations for large scale crimes, and in particular the crime of toxic waste dumping in Ivory Coast in 2006. It provides an account of the crime, and outlines contributory reasons for the impunity both under the law and from a criminological point of view. Furthermore, the book reveals the retrogressive role of civil society organisations... Read more

1. Introduction: Applying a Criminological Framework

2. State-Corporate Crime: Origins of the ‘Ship of Death’

3. The Probo Koala Arrives at Abidjan

4. The Development of the State of Ivory Coast

5. Explanations for Impunity

6. Civil Society’s Role

7. Researching Civil Society in Ivory Coast

8. Organisational Crime and the ‘Commodification of Victimhood’

9. Cover-up and Denial: The Battle in Britain

10. Conclusion

Appendix: Victim Card (issued by FAVIDET)

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Thomas MacManus is a Research Fellow and concentrates on the crimes of the powerful. He is based at the International State Crime Initiative (ISCI, statecrime.org) in the Department of Law at Queen Mary University of London (www.law.qmul.ac.uk/). He is admitted as an Attorney-at-Law (New York) and solicitor (Ireland). He is an editor in chief of State Crime Journal, and joint editor of Amicus Journal: Assisting Lawyers for Justice on Death Row. He is a director of the Colombia Caravana (www.colombiancaravana.org.uk/).

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