State Crime

Alan Doig was Professor of Public Services Management at Liverpool Business School and Teesside Business School before being appointed in 2008 as Resident Advisor on the Council of Europe's Prevention of Corruption project in Turkey. He was then appointed as the UNODC UNCAC mentor for Thailand, finishing in 2010. He currently works for a number of international organisations and is a Visiting Professor at a UK University. He has published extensively on ethics, corruption, economic crime and politics; along with Corruption and Misconduct in Contemporary British Politics (1984) and Westminster Babylon (1990), State Crime completes his trilogy on aspects of sex, money and power in British politics. His last book was Fraud, published by Willan in 2006.

• 1. The Issue of British State Crime: Introduction  2. Themes from the State Crime Literature: Labels  3. Themes from the State Crime Literature: Motives  4. What is a State in the UK Context?  5. State Crime: What is a Crime in the UK Context?  6. Not on the Label? State Crime: Opportunities and Motives in a Liberal Democratic State  7. Controlling State Crime and State Crime  8. Conclusion: Three Issues in Rethinking State Crime

'This book successfully provides the reader with an introduction to the complex issue of state crime. It is a topic that examines the intersection of law, politics and criminology. Doig reveals that state crime is an emerging, inchoate and contested area of study. However, it is a topic that is important as it draws criminology into addressing wider issues of power and the uses of crime and crime control.'-Jamie Bennett, Governor of HMP Grendon & Springhill, in Prison Service Journal no 203