An Introduction to Political Crime by Jeffrey Ian Ross - 9781847426796

An Introduction to Political CrimeAuthor(s): Jeffrey Ian Ross\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bristol University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Policy Press\nISBN-13: 9781847426796, 978-1847426796\nSynopsis\nIn 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 ([url] political corruption, illegal domestic surveillance, and human rights violations) in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and other advanced industrialized democracies since the 1960s. \n\nWritten 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 [url] integrates new scholarship on state crime, and post 9/11 developments in both scholarship and current affairs and uses n.