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Highlights
State-Corporate Crime and the Commodification of Victimhood presents a complex case of international state–corporate crime that offers new insights into how money, power and civil society can intersect in criminogenic ways
The book begins with a familiar-enough narrative about illegal dumping: A large corporation seeking to dispose of toxic waste finds a company that offers to do so for a price that is at once both attractive and too low to possibly ensure safe and legal disposal
An enterprising Trafigura agent locates an Ivory Coast company Socíeté Tommy that proposes to dispose of the slops for a fraction of the cost of disposal in Rotterdam, one of the few places with the facility to burn the waste in environmentally safe furnaces
Summary
State-Corporate Crime and the Commodification of Victimhood presents a complex case of international state–corporate crime that offers new insights into how money, power and civil society can intersect in criminogenic ways. The book begins with a familiar-enough narrative about illegal dumping: A large corporation seeking to dispose of toxic waste finds a company that offers to do so for a price that is at once both attractive and too low to possibly ensure safe and legal disposal.
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