The Routledge International Handbook of the Crimes of the Powerful

"Research on the crimes of the powerful brings together several areas of independent and yet often overlapping areas of criminological focus, involving organizational and institutional networks of powerful people, including crimes committed against workers, marketplaces, taxpayers, political systems and acts of torture, terrorism, genocide and state terrorism. This international handbook offers a comprehensive, authoritative and structure synthesis of these interrelated topics of contemporary research in criminology.Edited by an internationally acclaimed expert in the field and author of various celebrated publications, this book reflects the state of the art of scholarly research on the crimes of the powerful, covering all key areas including corporate crime, financial crime and state crime as well as media representations and formal and informal methods of controlling such crimes. This book is a perfect resource for students and researchers engaged with corporate, financial, state and white-collar crimes and international crime control. "-- "Across the world, most people are well aware of ordinary criminal harms to person and property. Often committed by the powerless and poor, t