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Title: Useful at the high school level? Hardly!
Review: I found Jeffrey's Ian Ross' book very useful for my own research dealing with criminal regimes in Latin America, notably the Fujimori dictatorship of Peru, which I examined in a recent work. I use Ross' book when dealing with state crime in my criminology classes. I also regularly recommend the work to the gradute students from International Development Studies whom I supervise on state crime in developing societies. While Ross' book is ethnocentric his assumptions can easily be modified to analyze political crime beyond the so-called First World. I would therefore strongly disagree with the claim by a previous reviewer that the book is at best useful at the high school level. My major criticism would be that the author does not sufficiently distinguish between administrative and political corruption.
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