Whilst the everyday criminal 'justice'| process and the sadistic scapegoating of the popular media continue to demonise the deviance of the powerless, in the wake of the financial crisis and proliferating elite scandals this smokescreen is ever harder to maintain.
Ruggiero marshals his considerable learning in many fields - philosophy, social and political theory, economics, literature, as well as conventional criminology - to demonstrate that contrary to the obfuscations of official statistics and the mass media, crime in the broadest sense is the twin of power.
Drawing on philosophy and political science, his analysis ranges over territory that incorporates systemic and institutional violence, riot, terrorism and war.
Within political violence Ruggiero finds the source of many of the greatest dangers we face as well as the potential for emancipation and liberation" (Tim Newburn, Professor of Criminology and Social Policy, London School of Economics, UK).
Jeffrey Ian Ross, Ph.D., University of Baltimore In 2019 Ruggiero received the Outstanding Book Award given by the American Society of Criminology Division of White Collar and Corporate Crime for his book Dirty Money: On Financial Delinquency (Oxford University Press, 2017).