State Crime and Immorality

Mark Monaghan is a lecturer in sociology, social policy and crime at the University of Leeds, UK. He completed his first degree in sociology at the University of Liverpool and then went to Leeds to undertake postgraduate study. His doctoral research centred on the problematic nature of evidence-based policy making when applied to heavily politicised areas.Simon Prideaux is an associate professor of social policy, disability and crime at the University of Leeds. He has written widely on social policy and has a growing profile within disability studies. His interests take in comparative access policy, welfare discourses, conditionality and political ideologies.

• Introduction;Defining the State, its Institutions, Allies and Protagonists;The State, Corporations and Organised Crime;Drugs and Thugs: Examples of Organised Crime, State Collusion and Limited Responses;The Media as Both an Influential and Supportive Arm of the State;Beyond the Borders: State Terrorism from Without and Against the ‘Other’;Without and Within: State Crime in Northern Ireland (Violence, Collusion and the Paramilitaries);Fighting the Enemy Within: Internal State Terrorism, Argentina’s ‘Dirty War’ (1976-83), the UK Miners’ Strike (1984-5) and the ‘Battle’ of Orgreave;Conclusion: The Role, Nature and Control of State Crime.

"A provocative and stimulating book and one that should be essential reading for anybody wanting a better understanding of the complex interplay between politics, the media, business and criminal enterprise." James Windle, University of East London