Revisiting the Crimes of the Powerful: Marxism, Crime and Deviance

Présentation de l'éditeur : "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." Cover 1 Title 4 Copyright 5 Dedication 6 Contents 8 List of figures 11 List of contributors 12 Foreword 19 Acknowledgements 33 Revisiting Crimes of the Powerful: an introduction 34 Section I Theoretical and conceptual excursions 52 1 Conceptualization, theoretical practice and Crimes of the Powerful 54 2 Law: ideological whitewashing and positive enabling of coercion 71 3 Underworld as servant and smokescreen: Crimes of the Powerful and the evolution of organized crime control 83 4 Shadow boxing against the crimes of the powerful 96 5 Between force and consensus 111 6 Developing Pearce’s new materialism 124 7 Theorizing fiscal sacrifices in zombie capitalism: a radical Durkheimian approach 138 8 Power, crime and enclosure: capital accumulation in the twilight of the neoliberal SSA 153 Section II Crimes of the powerful research: empirical dimensions 168 9 Marx reloaded for the 21st century: capitalism, agency and the crimes of the powerful 170 10 The imaginary social order of corporate criminal liability 182 11 Global capital, the rigging of interbank interest rates and the capitalist state 194 12 Pipelines, presidents and people power: resisting state–corporate environmental crime 208 13 Pesticideland: Brazil’s poison market 225 14 No criminology of wage theft: revisiting “workplace theft” to expose capitalist exploitation 239 15 Prying into the pockets of public figures 253 16 The crimes of the powerful and the Spanish crisis 268 17 Crimes of globalization and Asian dam projects: powerful institutions and slow violence 282 Section III New developments in crimes of the powerful research 294 18 An extension of Frank Pearce’s work on crimes of the powerful: “demystification” and the role of our consent 296 19 Debtfarism, predatory lending and imaginary social orders: the case of the U.S. payday lending industry 308 20 Failure to protect: state obligations to victims and state crime 321 21 “Punitive reformation”: state-sanctioned labour through criminal justice and welfare 334 22 Imperialism: the general theory of crimes of the powerful 348 23 Frank Pearce and colonial state crimes: contributions to a research agenda 360 24 Organized irresponsibility, corporations and the contradictions of collective agency and individual culpability 373 Index 386 Présentation de l'éditeur : "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." "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 Pearces 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."--Provided by publisher 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.