Routledge Handbook of State Crime

This handbook brings together leading scholars who identify the key contemporary topics of research and debate in the field of state crime today, past and present. From the ongoing devastation in Gaza and the repression of Palestinian rights, to the state-sanctioned denial of justice for victims of killings in the North of Ireland, the book reveals how states perpetrate violence, conceal responsibility, and criminalise dissent. Its case studies span every continent, examining neo-colonial policing in Australia, CIA counter-insurgency in Kenya, civil society resistance in Brazil, and the global harms of modern slavery and economic warfare. The volume explores how technologies such as artificial intelligence and digital surveillance are transforming the tools of repression, while grassroots and transnational movements also innovate new forms of resistance and accountability. Interdisciplinary in scope, contributors draw on diverse theory and history to illuminate how power, impunity, and harm are structurally intertwined. This interdisciplinary handbook will be of interest to students of criminology, law, genocide studies, human rights and international relations in general.