Featuring contributions by many of the leading scholars in the field, this seminal text explores the key themes and debates on state power today, in relation to crime and social order. It critically evaluates a range of substantive areas of criminological concern, including terrorism, surveillance, violence, and the media.
David Whyte is professor of Socio-legal Studies at the University of Liverpool, where he teaches sociology and criminology and researches the relationship between law and institutional power. His most recent books are Neoliberalism and the Moral Economy of Fraud (ed. with Jörg Wiegratz, 2016), Corporate Human Rights Violations (with Stefanie Khoury, 2017), and The Violence of Austerity (ed. with Vickie Cooper, 2017).