Private Military Contractors, Crime, and the Terrain of Unaccountability

Rothe, Dawn L.; Ross, Jeffrey Ian

doi:10.1080/07418820902965328

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“…27 For instance, were we to utilise a version of ''Merton's attempt to explain crime as a response to anomie -the disjuncture between cultural goals of success and legitimate opportunity structures through which success might be realized'' (Box 1983, p. 34), we would focus on the particular goals, opportunity structures and modes of social regulation (or lack thereof) featured in our unmediated empirical data, using the theory to forge an abstract causal chain between these moments, all awhile the empirical features presented remain poorly defined and the real connection between phenomena mystified (for examples of this process using the concept of anomie, see Rothe and Ross 2009;Schoepfer and Piquero 2006).…”

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Scientific Method and the Crimes of the Powerful

Lasslett¹

2010

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Over the past six decades researchers interested in the crimes of the powerful have developed a respectable body of literature. Owing to the empirical and theoretical richness of these contributions, the crimes of the powerful sub-field is ready for critical interventions to be made on the plane of scientific method. Moreover, such interventions have become increasingly necessary owing to the disciplinary hegemony of an orthodox empiricist approach which erects a problematic boundary between empirical representations of the crimes of the powerful and theoretical explanation. To aid a critique of this approach, this paper will employ the scientific framework of classical Marxism to decipher the peculiar problems which flow out of the orthodoxy's method. It will be concluded that while classical Marxism offers a more rigorous framework for penetrating analyses of the crimes of the powerful, orthodox scholars have nevertheless made significant contributions which should also be utilised in future research.

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Scientific Method and the Crimes of the Powerful

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2010

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“…Ultimately, this all gets into the realm of what criminologists refer to as state-corporate crime, which "foregrounds the ways in which horizontal relationships between economic and political institutions contain powerful potential for the production of socially injurious actions" (Kramer & Michalowski, 2006, p. 21). Though the authors do not use this language or draw directly from the state-corporate crime literature, they nonetheless have sections that nicely parallel published works on deviance and state-corporate offending associated with private military contractors (Rothe & Ross, 2010) and the Iraq war (Kramer & Michalowski, 2005;Rothe, 2006), to name a few examples.…”

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Book Review: Cameron D. Lippard, Pavel Osinsky, and Lon Strauss, War: Contemporary Perspectives on Armed Conflicts Around the World

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2019

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new book, War: Contemporary Perspectives on Armed Conflicts Around the World, delivers a thorough overview of the literature on war and closely related topics. This book is a dynamic interdisciplinary work that will appeal to scholars in several disciplines, including, but not limited to: history, international relations, philosophy, political science, and sociology. At the same time, it specifically foregrounds sociological thinking on war, evidenced in part by its substantial sections on core sociological themes, such as, cultural representations of war, war and social stratification, and peace and antiwar social movements.Collectively, the authors have published widely on war, the military, and a range of other sociological topics. They also feature an intriguing blend of educational and professional experiences, with each having taught at multiple institutions.

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“…Illustrative studies focusing on domestic corporations include Clinard and Yeager (1980); grabosky and Braithwaite (1986); Kramer (1982Kramer ( , 1992 and Vaughn (1983). For transnational corporations, see Friedrichs (2007); green, Ward, and mcConnachie (2007); michalowski and Bitten (2004); michalowski and Kramer (2006); and Rothe and Ross (2009). And for state behaviors, refer to green and Ward (2004); Kramer and michalowski (2005); Ross (1995); Ross and Rothe (2008); Rothe (2009); and Rothe, Kramer, and mullins (2009 sented in the case of the E-waste industry, Gibbs et al state that policies should reflect "smart" or "responsive" regulation in the form of crime prevention, third-party and self-regulation, and the threat of strong state intervention.…”

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