Books in the Crimes of the Powerful series

This book explores the causal relationship between the deregulation of international economic interests and the forms of violence that prevail in the Global South, looking speficially at the extractive industries and multinational expansionism

The book highlights the continuing impunity enjoyed by corporations for large scale crimes, helps readers understand the difficulties in sanctioning such crime and the failure of civil society, and develops a theoretical framework of state crime.

This book brings together leading international scholars to discuss the crimes of the powerful and demonstrates the contribution a critical Marxist framework brings to studies of corporate and state crimes, nationally, internationally and globally.

This book explores the causal relationship between the deregulation of international economic interests and the forms of violence that prevail in the Global South, looking speficially at the extractive industries and multinational expansionism

This book examines one of Amnesty International¿s first major campaigns against torture, and the impact this had on the organization¿s development of a new agenda. It makes a strong contribution to research on state crime, human rights, and torture.

This book brings together leading international scholars to discuss the crimes of the powerful and demonstrates the contribution a critical Marxist framework brings to studies of corporate and state crimes, nationally, internationally and globally.

Drawing on the cooperation between France and Argentina, this book explores the transnational institutionalisation of torture and offers a detailed examination of the exportation of torture techniques and training expertise as complicity in torture.

Building on two years of research and drawing on the state-corporate and environmental crime literatures, this book explores extractive conflicts between indigenous populations, the government, and oil and mining companies in Latin America.