Indicting the 45th President

Boss Trump, the GOP, and What We Can Do About the Threat to American Democracy
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-45477-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 374 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 570 g

Reihe: Crimes of the Powerful

Indicting the 45th President is a sequel to Criminology on Trump in real time, continuing the criminological investigation into the former US president. Developing and expanding on the themes of family dynamics, deviance, deception, dishonesty, and the weaponization of the law, this book offers the next chapter on the world’s most successful outlaw.

In this new book, Gregg Barak considers the campaigns and policies, the corruption, the state- organized abuses of power and obstructions of justice, the pardons, the failed insurrection, the prosecutions, the indictment of Trump and the politics of punishment as these revolve around the Trumpian character and social structures that encourage such crimes of the powerful. Barak also thoroughly addresses the threat to American Democracy, critiques the current state of the U.S. constitutional system, and proposes reforms to enhance justice for all in the United States.

Another accessible and compelling read, this is essential reading for all those engaged with state and white- collar crime in the context of power and privilege, and those seeking a criminological understanding of Trump’s evasion of law and justice.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barak, Gregg

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Verwaltungspraxis Polizei
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Korruption

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Defending Crimes, Incendiary Rhetoric, and the Big Lie

PART I

An Absence of Bipartisanism

1 Conspiracy Theories and Mediated Memes in a World of Post- Truth America

2 Scaremongering, Party Politics, and the Crisis in US Democracy

3 Oligarchy, Kleptocracy, and the Maestro of Looting

4 On the Divided House Select Committee Investigation of the Capitol Assault

PART II

Indicting Donald Trump for Vandalizing the Federal Republic

5 The People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump

6 The Mar- a- Lago Classified Documents Caper

7 The People of Fulton County, Georgia v. Donald J. Trump et al.

8 Trump’s Conspiracies to Overturn the 2020 Election that Led to the January 6th Assault on the Capitol

PART III

Liberty, Justice, and American Democracy

9 American Mythology, Bipartisan Alienation, and Partisan Politics

10 Tyranny of a Minority or Tyranny of a Majority

Über Autor(innen)

Gregg Barak is an American criminologist, academic, and author. He is Emeritus Professor of criminology and criminal justice at Eastern Michigan University.