1st Edition
Towards a Victimology of State Crime
State crime victimization often leaves a legacy of unrecognized victims that are ignored, forgotten, or negated the right to be labeled as such. Victims are often glossed over, as the focus is on a state’s actions or inactions rather than the subsequent victimization and victims. Towards a Victimology of State Crime serves to highlight the forgotten victims, processes and cases of revictimization within a sociological, criminological framework. Contributors include expert scholars of state crime and victimology from North America, Europe, Africa, and Latin America to provide a well-rounded focus that can address and penetrate the issues of victims of state crime. This includes a diverse number of case study examples of victims of state crime and the systems of control that facilitate or impede addressing the needs of victims. Additionally, with the inclusion of a section on controls, this volume taps into an area that is often overlooked: the international level of social control in relation to a victimology of state criminality.
Part I. State Crimes, Harms, and Victimizations, 1. A Victimology of State Crime, Dawn L. Rothe and David Kauzlarich 2. The Victimization of Street Children in Brazil, Fernanda Fonseca Rosenblatt, 3. Accumulating Atrocities: Capital, State Killing and the Cultural Life of the Dead, Tyler Wall and Travis Linneman, 4. The Victimization of Children in State-Run Homes in New Zealand, Elizabeth Stanley, 5. Somali Pirates: Victims or Perpetrators or Both?, Victoria Ellen Collins, 6. Victimizing the Undocumented: Immigration Policy and Border Enforcement as State Crime, Raymond Michalowski and Lisa Hardy, 7. "Death Flies Down": The Bombing of Civilians and the Paradox of International Law, Ronald C. Kramer and Amanda Marie Smith, 8 State Crime and the Re-Victimization of Displaced Populations: The Case of Haiti, Victoria Ellen Collins, 9. Victimisation during and after war: empirical findings from Bosnia, Stephan Parmentier and Elmar Weitekamp, Part II: Responses to State Crime Victimization, 10. European Court of Human Rights – accountability to whom?, Isabel Schoultz, 11. The victims of the Colombian conflict and restorative justice, Isabella Bueno and Andrea Diaz Rozas, 12. Institutional and Structural Victimisation: Apartheid South Africa, Robert Peacock, 13. Controlling State Crime and the Possibility of Creating More Victims, Jeffrey Ian Ross and Peter Grabosky, 14. Can an International Criminal Justice System Address Victims’ Needs?, Dawn L. Rothe.
Biography
Dawn L. Rothe is an Associate Professor at Old Dominion University and the director of the International State Crime Research Consortium. She is the author or co-author of four other books and over four dozen peer reviewed articles and book chapters dealing with the topics of state crime, corporate crime, and international institutions of control.
David Kauzlarich is Professor of Sociology at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. He is the author of several books and articles on state crime, criminology, and sociological theory. He has been given several honours for both his teaching and research.
