The ultimate expression of power is the ability to act beyond the confines of law, with contemporary society enabling elite groups to wield “panoramic power”. From the murderous crimes of the corporate giants that provide us with life’s luxuries and necessities to the data gathering activities of media and educational institutions, the authors offer new thinking on damaging structures of power and privilege.
This accessible book provides a comprehensive understanding of elite corporate wrongdoing, and the late capitalist society that enables harm, considering both how we got into this mess and how we get out of it.
Table of Content
1. The Philosophy of Power: A Critical Overview
2. Sleep-Walk Through the Fires: Harm, Violence & Dangerous Subjectivities
3. The Era of Corporate Giants
4. Follow the Money: The Global Finance Industry
5. The Price of the Gun: The Arms Industry
6. Making a [Corporate] Killing
7. The Remote Control Over the Masses: The Media
8. Knowledge, Education & Power
About the author
Dr James Treadwell is Professor of Criminology at Staffordshire University and has also worked at the University of Birmingham, and University of Leicester. Previously he worked for the crime reduction charity NACRO, and as a Probation Officer in the West Midlands. He undertakes ethnographic and qualitative research for crime and criminal justice related projects, including studies of the English Defence League, and the August 2011 English Riots.
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