State Crime

Chambliss, in an article, [1] defines state crime as “acts defined by law as criminal and committed by state officials in the pursuit of their job as representatives of the state,” and he adds that state crime does not include acts “that benefit only individual officeholders.”

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Notes

1. Chambliss, W. J. (1989). State-organized crime-The American Society of Criminology, 1988 presidential address. Criminology, 27, page 184

See Also

• Political Crime
• Environmental Crime
• Organized Crime
• Violent Crime
• Consumer Fraud
• Victimless Crime
• Transnational crime

Further Reading

• Chambliss, W. J. (1978). On the take: From petty crooks to presidents. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• Chambliss, W. J. (1989). State-organized crime-The American Society of Criminology, 1988 presidential address. Criminology, 27, 183-208.
• Clinard, M., & Yeager, P. C. (1980). Corporate crime. New York: Free Press.
• Domhoff, G. W. (2014). Who rules America? The triumph of the corporate rich (7th ed.). Boston: McGraw-Hill.
• Kauzlarich, D., Mullins, C. W., & Matthews, R. A. (2003). A complicity continuum of state crime. Contemporary Justice Review, 6, 241-254.
• Kramer, R. C., & Michalowski, R. J. (1990). State-corporate crime. Presentation at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Baltimore.
• Kramer, R. C. (1992). The space shuttle Challenger explosion: A case study of state-corporate crime. In K. Schlegel & D. Weisburd (Eds.), White-collar crime reconsidered (pp. 214-243). Boston: Northeastern University Press.
• Kramer, R. C., Michalowski, R. J., & Kauzlarich, D. (2002). The origins and development of the concept and theory of state-corporate crime. Crime & Delinquency, 48, 263-282.
• Ross, J. I. (Ed.). (2000). Controlling state crime. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
• Ross, J. I. (2015). Controlling state crime and alternative reactions. In G. Barak (Ed.), The Routledge International Handbook of Crimes of the Powerful (pp. 492-502). New York: Routledge.
• Rothe, D. L. (2006). Iraq and Halliburton. In R. J. Michalowski & R. C. Kramer (Eds.), State-corporate crime: Wrongdoing at the intersection of business and government (pp. 215-238). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
• Sutherland, E. H. (1945). Is “white collar crime” crime? American Sociological Review, 10(2), 132-139.
• Sutherland, E. H. (1983). White collar crime: The uncut version. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
• Tappan, P. W. (1947). Who is the criminal? American Sociological Review, 12(1), 96-102
• Kauzlarich, D., Mullins, C. W., & Matthews, R. A. (2003). A complicity continuum of state crime. Contemporary Justice Review, 6, 241-254.
• Peoples, C. D., & Sutton, J. E. (2015). Congressional bribery as state-corporate crime: A social network analysis. Crime, Law and Social Change, 64(2-3), 103-125.
• Rose-Ackerman, S. (1999). Corruption and government: Causes, consequences, and reform. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Rosoff, S. M., Pontell, H. N., & Tillman, R. (2014). Profit without honor: White collar crime and the looting of America (6th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.
• Ross, J. I. (Ed.). (2000). Controlling state crime. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
• Sutherland, E. H. (1983). White collar crime: The uncut version. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
• Tunnell, K. D. (Ed.). (1993). Political crime in contemporary America: A critical approach. New York: Garland.