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Revisiting Crimes of the Powerful Frank Pearce was the first scholar to use the term “crimes of the powerful.” His ground-breaking book of the same name provided insightful critiques of liberal orthodox criminology, particularly in relation to labelling theory and symbolic interactionism, while making important contributions to Marxist understandings of the complex relations between crime, law and the state in the reproduction of the capitalist social order. Historically, crimes of the powerful were largely neglected in crime and deviance studies, but there is now an important and growing body of work addressing this gap. This book brings together leading international scholars to discuss the legacy of Frank Pearce’s book and his work in this area, demonstrating the invaluable contributions a critical Marxist framework brings to studies of corporate and state crimes, nationally, internationally and on a global scale. This book is neither a hagiography nor a review of random areas of social scientific interest. Instead, it draws together a collection of scholarly and original articles which draw upon and critically interrogate the continued significance of the approach pioneered in Crimes of the Powerful. The book traces the evolution of crimes of the powerful empirically and theoretically since 1976; shows how critical scholars have integrated new theoretical insights derived from post- structuralism, feminism and critical race studies; and offers perspectives on how the crimes of the powerful – and the enormous, ongoing destruction they cause – can be addressed and resisted. Steven Bittle is an Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Laureen Snider is an Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Steve Tombs is Professor of Criminology at The Open University, UK. David Whyte is Professor of Socio-legal Studies at the School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool, UK. Crimes of the Powerful Gregg Barak Eastern Michigan University, USA Penny Green Queen Mary University of London, UK Tony Ward Northumbria University, UK Crimes of the Powerful encompasses the harmful, injurious and victimizing behaviours perpetrated by privately or publicly operated businesses, corporations and organizations as well as the state mediated administrative, legalistic, and political responses to these crimes. The series draws attention to the commonalities of the theories, practices, and controls of the crimes of the powerful. It focuses on the overlapping spheres and inter-related worlds of a wide array of existing and recently developing areas of social, historical and behavioural inquiry into the wrongdoings of multinational organizations, nation-states, stateless regimes, illegal networks, financialization, globalization and securitization. These examinations of the crimes of the powerful straddle a variety of related disciplines and areas of academic interest, including studies in criminology and criminal justice; law and human rights; conflict, peace and security; economic change, environmental decay and global sustainability. Uncovering the Crimes of Urbanisation Researching Corruption, Violence and Urban Conflict Kristian Lasslett State-Corporate Crime and the Commodification of Victimhood The Toxic Legacy of Trafigura’s Ship of Death Thomas MacManus Market Criminology State-Corporate Crime in the Petroleum Extraction Industry Ifeanyi Ezeonu Revisiting Crimes of the Powerful Marxism, Crime and Deviance Edited by Steven Bittle, Laureen Snider, Steve Tombs and David Whyte For more information about this series, please visit: www.routledge.com/ Crimes-of-the-Powerful/book-series/COTP Revisiting Crimes of the Powerful Marxism, Crime and Deviance Edited by Steven Bittle, Laureen Snider, Steve Tombs and David Whyte First published 2018 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2018 selection and editorial matter, Steven Bittle, Laureen Snider, Steve Tombs and David Whyte; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Steven Bittle, Laureen Snider, Steve Tombs and David Whyte to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Bittle, Steven, 1968– editor. | Snider, Laureen, 1944– editor. | Tombs, Steve, editor. Title: Revisiting crimes of the powerful : Marxism, crime and deviance / edited by Steven Bittle, Laureen Snider, Steve Tombs and David Whyte. Description: 1 Edition. | New York : Routledge, 2018. | Series: Crimes of the powerful | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018006415 | ISBN 9780415791427 (hardback) | ISBN 9781315212333 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Commercial crimes. | Corporations—Corrupt practices. | Organized crime. | State crimes. | Political corruption. Classification: LCC HV6768 .R485 2018 | DDC 364.16/8—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018006415 ISBN: 978-0-415-79142-7 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-21233-3 (ebk) Typeset in Bembo by Apex CoVantage, LLC This book is dedicated to Frank Pearce: friend, teacher, colleague and inspiration. Contents List of figures x List of contributors xi Foreword by Frank Pearce xviii Acknowledgements xxxii Revisiting Crimes of the Powerful: an introduction xxxiii STEVEN BITTLE, LAUREEN SNIDER, STEVE TOMBS AND DAVID WHYTE SECTION I Theoretical and conceptual excursions 1 1 Conceptualization, theoretical practice and Crimes of the Powerful 3 JON FRAULEY 2 Law: ideological whitewashing and positive enabling of coercion 20 HARRY GLASBEEK 3 Underworld as servant and smokescreen: Crimes of the Powerful and the evolution of organized crime control 32 MICHAEL WOODIWISS 4 Shadow boxing against the crimes of the powerful 45 MARGARET BEARE 5 Between force and consensus 60 VINCENZO RUGGIERO viii Contents 6 Developing Pearce’s new materialism 73 NICK HARDY 7 Theorizing fiscal sacrifices in zombie capitalism: a radical Durkheimian approach 87 RONJON PAUL DATTA 8 Power, crime and enclosure: capital accumulation in the twilight of the neoliberal SSA 102 RAYMOND MICHALOWSKI SECTION II Crimes of the powerful research: empirical dimensions 117 9 Marx reloaded for the 21st century: capitalism, agency and the crimes of the powerful 119 KRISTIAN LASSLETT 10 The imaginary social order of corporate criminal liability 131 LIISA LÄHTEENMÄKI AND ANNE ALVESALO-KUUSI 11 Global capital, the rigging of interbank interest rates and the capitalist state 143 GREGG BARAK 12 Pipelines, presidents and people power: resisting state–corporate environmental crime 157 ELIZABETH A. BRADSHAW 13 Pesticideland: Brazil’s poison market 174 STÉFANIE KHOURY 14 No criminology of wage theft: revisiting “workplace theft” to expose capitalist exploitation 188 PAUL LEIGHTON 15 Prying into the pockets of public figures 202 SCOTT POYNTING 16 The crimes of the powerful and the Spanish crisis 217 IGNASI BERNAT Contents ix 17 Crimes of globalization and Asian dam projects: powerful institutions and slow violence 231 DAVID O. FRIEDRICHS SECTION III New developments in crimes of the powerful research 243 18 An extension of Frank Pearce’s work on crimes of the powerful: “demystification” and the role of our consent 245 DAWN L. ROTHE AND VICTORIA E. COLLINS 19 Debtfarism, predatory lending and imaginary social orders: the case of the U.S. payday lending industry 257 SUSANNE SOEDERBERG 20 Failure to protect: state obligations to victims and state crime 270 LAURA FINLEY 21 “Punitive reformation”: state-sanctioned labour through criminal justice and welfare 283 JON BURNETT 22 Imperialism: the general theory of crimes of the powerful 297 BIKO AGOZINO 23 Frank Pearce and colonial state crimes: contributions to a research agenda 309 JOSE ATILES 24 Organized irresponsibility, corporations and the contradictions of collective agency and individual culpability 322 DEAN CURRAN Index 335
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