Unmasking the Crimes of the Powerful : Scrutinizing States and Corporations

Foreword Holy Wars and Spiritual Revitalization ix Frank Pearce Acknowledgments xv INTRODUCTION Scrutinizing the Powerful: Crime, Contemporary Political Economy, and Critical Social Research 3(46) Steve Tombs Dave Whyte POWER, ``VALID'' KNOWLEDGE, AND THE LIMITS TO SCRUTINY Researching Corporate Crime 49(20) Laureen Snider Researching Corporate Crime: A Business Historian's Perspective 69(19) Geoffrey Tweedale CCTV Surveillance, Power, and Social Order: The State of Contemporary Social Control 88(17) Roy Coleman In the Valley of the Blind the One-Eyed Man Is King: Corporate Crime and the Myopia of Financial Regulation 105(24) Gary Fooks CONFRONTING POWER: SCRUTINY WITHIN LIMITS Silencing the View from Below: The Institutional Regulation of Critical Research 129(17) Eileen Berrington Ann Jemphrey Phil Scraton ``Telling It Like It Is''? Power, Prejudice, Politics, and People in the Qualitative Process 146(20) Colm Power Researching the Turkish State 166(15) Penny Green Researching Regulators and the Paradoxes of Access 181(20) Anne Alvesalo Erja Virta EXPOSING POWER: SCRUTINIZING THE CRIMES OF THE POWERFUL Imaginative Crimes or Crimes of the Imagination: Researching the Secret State 201(18) Paddy Hillyard Researching and Redefining State Crime: Feminism and the Capital Punishment of Women 219(20) Anette Ballinger Whose Side Are We Not On? Researching Medical Power in Prisons 239(22) Joe Sim CONCLUSION Unmasking the Crimes of the Powerful: Establishing Some Rules of Engagement 261(12) Steve Tombs Dave Whyte Bibliography 273(30) Contributors 303(4) Index 307