Corrupt Capital

This book offers a deep dive into the social, political, and economic forces that make white-collar crime and corruption a staple feature of the nightlife economy.

Autorentext

Kenneth Sebastian León is an Assistant Professor of Latino and Caribbean Studies and a faculty affiliate of the Criminal Justice Program at Rutgers University New Brunswick. He specializes in crimes of the powerful, empirically studying how criminal justice policies contribute to racial capitalist harms and state-corporate crime. Previously, León was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at George Washington University (GWU) and a contracted researcher of transnational organized crime at the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs National Institute of Justice (20162017). León serves as the Managing Editor for the Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime, a peer-reviewed publication affiliated with the American Society of Criminology.

Inhalt

1. Alcohol, Nightlife, and Crimes of the Powerful 2. Science, Politics, and Imperial Criminology 3. White-Collar Crime and Corruption: Back to Basics 4. Getting Behind the Bar ... and Staying There On Studying the Nightlife Economy 5. Metropolis East Money Games 6. Corrupt Capital