Gregg Barak - The Routledge International Handbook of the Crimes of the Powerful

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Routledge international handbook of the crimes of the powerful / edited by

Gregg Barak. First Edition.

1. Organized crime. 2. Political corruption. 3. CorporationsCorrupt

practices. 4. White collar crimes. 5. Power (Social sciences) 6. Elite
(Social sciences) I. Barak, Gregg, editor.

HV6441.R688 2015
364.1dc23
2014045769

ISBN13: 978-0-415-74126-2 (hbk)
ISBN13: 978-1-315-81535-0 (ebk)

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Maya Barak is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Justice, Law, and Criminology at American University with a dual concentration in the sociology of law and criminology, and overall emphasis on qualitative methods. Her research brings together the topics of law, deviance, immigration, and power utilizing interdisciplinary approaches that span the fields of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Law and Society, Sociology and Anthropology.

Elizabeth A. Bradshaw is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Central Michigan University and specializes in the area of state and corporate criminality. She received her PhD in Sociology from Western Michigan University in 2012. Her dissertation examined the causes of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and the ensuing response to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill as a form of state-corporate environmental crime.

Augustine Brannigan received his doctoral training in Sociology at the University of Toronto, and graduated in 1978. He taught for two years at the University of Western Ontario before joining the faculty of sociology at the University of Calgary in 1979 where he taught criminology, criminal justice, social psychology and social theory until his retirement in 2012. He has appeared as an expert witness in criminal trials cases involving obscenity law and prostitution.

Avi Brisman is an Assistant Professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, KY (USA). He has published articles in Contemporary Justice Review, Crime, Law and Social Change, Crime Media Culture, Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, Race and Justice, Theoretical Criminology , and Western Criminology Review , among other journals.

Carrie L. Buist is an Assistant Professor of Criminology at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. She received her PhD from Western Michigan University in Sociology with concentrations in Criminology and Gender and Feminism. Her primary areas of research are women police officers, LGBT issues, gender, feminist theory, and feminist criminology. Her most recent articles have been published in the Journal of Culture, Health & Sexuality (with Emily Lenning), and in the Journal of Crime and Justice (with Susan M. Carlson and Elizabeth A. Bradshaw).

Ronald G. Burns is a Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Texas Christian University. His recent books include Policing: A Modular Approach; Critical Issues in Criminal Justice; Multiculturalism in the Criminal Justice System (with R.H. McNamara); and Environmental Law, Crime and Justice: An Introduction (with M.J. Lynch and P.B. Stretesky). His publications focus on policing issues, corporate deviance, and environmental crimes.

Melanie Collard is a researcher at the International State Crime Initiative (ISCI) and also teaches Criminology at the London School of Economics and Birkbeck. She completed her Law Degree at the Universit de Lige, Belgium. She also holds an LLM in Public International Law from Queen Mary University of London and an MA in Criminology and Criminal Justice as well as a PhD in Law & Criminology from Kings College London.

Victoria Ellen Collins is an Assistant Professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University. She recently completed her dissertation where she examined the processes involved in creating, implementing, and enforcing policy on maritime piracy. Some of her recent publications have appeared in journals such as International Criminal Law Review, Critical Criminology, Contemporary Justice Review, and The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology .

Marilyn Corsianos is Professor of Criminology and Sociology at Eastern Michigan University. She is the author of The Complexities of Police Corruption: Gender, Identity and Misconduct (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012), the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Policing and Gendered Justice (University of Toronto Press, 2009), co-author (with Walter S. DeKeseredy) of Pornography and Violence Against Women (Elsevier, 2015), and co-editor of Interrogating Social Justice (Canadian Scholars Press, 2000).

Mary Dodge is a full Professor at the University of Colorado, Denver in the School of Public Affairs. She earned her PhD in 1997 in Criminology, Law and Society from the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine. Her articles have appeared in the American Journal of Criminal Justice, Women & Criminal Justice, Contemporary Issues in Criminology, International Journal of the Sociology of Law, and The Prison Journal , among others. Her book, Women and White-collar Crime , was published in 2009.