Nine essays explore not only politically motivated crimes against the state, but also harmful acts committed by the government, a category usually omitted in di

Examines the US crime problem and the resulting policies as a political and cultural issue.

Most Americans are not aware that the US prison population has tripled over the past two decades, nor that the US has the highest rate of incarceration in the i

Why has America experienced an explosion in crime rates since 1960? Why has the crime rate dropped in recent years? Though politicians are always ready both to

Through a collection of essays by leading scholars in the field, State Crime offers a set of cases exemplifying state criminality along with various methods for