An Introduction to Political Crime

Name: An Introduction to Political Crime
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Jeffrey Ian Ross

avr. 2012 · Policy Press

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In An introduction to political crime, Jeffrey Ian Ross provides the most comprehensive and contemporary analysis of political crime addressing both violent and nonviolent crimes committed by and against the state (e.g. political corruption, illegal domestic surveillance, and human rights violations) in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and other advanced industrialized democracies since the 1960s.

Written by a respected social scientist, this book reviews appropriate theories of political crime and explains numerous definitional and conceptual issues, causes of political crimes, ways to control it, and effects of different types of political crime. Ross integrates new scholarship on state crime, and post 9/11 developments in both scholarship and current affairs and uses numerous examples to help readers understand the issues.

The book is supported by a companion website, containing additional materials for both students and lecturers, which is available from the link above.

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He has researched, written, and lectured on corrections, policing, political crime, violence, cybercrime, extreme/abnormal criminal behaviour, and crime and justice in Indian Country for over two decades. Ross is the author, co-author, editor,

or co-editor of sixteen books.

Jeffrey Ian Ross, Ph.D. is a Professor in the School of Criminal Justice, College of Public Affairs, and a Research Fellow of the Center for International and Comparative Law at the University of Baltimore. He has researched, written, and lectured on corrections, policing, political crime, viole...

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