State Crime in the Global Age

William J. Chambliss is Professor of Sociology at The George Washington State University, USA. His main areas of research are criminology and the sociology of law, and has authored or co-authored numerous titles, including: Social Problems, Law and Society (Rowman and Littlefield, 2001); Power, Politics, and Crime (Westview Press, 2001); Sociology, 2nd edition (Longman, 1997).Raymond J. Michalowski is Regents' Professor of Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University, USA. His research and teaching fields encompass criminological theory, international human rights, immigration and border policy, social justice, and corporate, envrionmental and political crime.Ronald C. Kramer is Professor of Sociology, and Director of the Criminal Justice Program at Western Michigan University. His research specialties within criminology are corporate and state crime, and crime prevention and control strategies, and he is the co-author of Crimes of the American Nuclear State: At Home and Abroad (Northeastern University Press, 1998), and co-editor of State-Corporate Crime: Wrongdoing at the Intersection of Business and Government (Rutgers University Press, 2006).