This book deals with the political corruption which infested Peru during the Fujimori years (1990-2000). The work is not about petty corruption, the small bribe paid to the underpaid police officer to avoid being booked for a minor traffic violation, but addresses the corruption of the powerful. Elites rely on corruption, and particularly in repressive regimes the practice is the most important tool of ‘criminal governance’. The author utilizes the concept of the protection racket developed by Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno from the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory to explain the links between political, economic, and societal elites in Fujimori’s Peru such as the military, political parties, multinational corporations, or conservative groups within the Catholic Church.
By:
Alfredo Schulte-Bockholt
Imprint: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Height: 210mm,
Width: 148mm,
Weight: 430g
ISBN: 9783034306164
ISBN 10: 3034306164
Pages: 318
Publication Date: 18 March 2013
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Contents: Criminal Governance, Corruption and Power – A Spy Chief and his Video Collection – The Military: Partner in Crime – Pecunia … Olet (But Not All that Shines is Gold) – Peru’s Congress: A Stable of Augias? – Consent by Corruption: The Imagocratic Dictatorship – Conservative Catholicism, Human Rights and Democracy: Sad Tales from Peru – Geoeconomics or Human Rights?
Alfredo Schulte-Bockholt works at the Department of Criminology and Sociology at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Canada. He teaches on state crime, and crime and corruption in developing societies, especially Latin America. Dr Schulte-Bockholt is a ‘political criminologist’ interested in the exploration of criminal power, while his academic efforts are largely informed by the works of Max Horkheimer.
Reviews for Corruption as Power: Criminal Governance in Peru during the Fujimori Era (1990-2000)
If one wants a comprehensive book that details the crimes of the Fujimori administration, one could ask for nothing more. (Jeffrey Ian Ross, Critical Criminology 21, 2013/2)
