Crimes of States and Powerful Elites: A Collection of Case Studies - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1839998873 ISBN 13: 9781839998874

Publisher: Anthem Press, 2026

Synopsis

This book explores fourteen case studies of state crime, crimes/immoralities of the powerful, including disasters caused by neglect, pharmaceutical fraud, state sponsored or instigated crime, corporate crime, organisational crime and state terrorism. The book offers a valuable contribution to critical social science perspectives on criminality, providing analysis which explores issues of accountability and social harm and linking these to wider structural contexts, particularly the role of neoliberal ideologies. At the same time, the book will provide a critical perspective on historical case studies which continue to have legacies in the present, and which help to shed light on histories of domination and inequalities and to illustrate continuities and changes in crimes of the powerful over time.

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About the Author

Claudia Radiven is a Diamond Jubilee Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds. Her work focusses on deradicalisation in the UK, colonial racial governance, genocide and Islamophobia.

Simon Prideaux was an associate professor of social welfare and crime in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds. His authored works include “Not so New Labour: A Sociological Critique of New Labour’s Policy and Practice” (2005) and “State Crime and Immorality: The Corrupting Influence of the Powerful” (2016).

Edition details

• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1839998873
• ISBN 13: 9781839998874
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 238
• Editor: Radiven Claudia, Prideaux Simon