State–Corporate Crime and Southern Criminology
Towards a Colonial Regime of Permission
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 17819307 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Irene Buenavista Molina (0000-0003-4456-3764, Universitat de Barcelona, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2026-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | State Crime Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2046-6056 • E-ISSN: 2046-6064 |
| Publisher | Pluto Journals (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.13169/statecrime.14.2.0007 |
| OpenAlex | W7159673889 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 27 |
In recent analyses of state–corporate crime, a number of scholars have underlined the need to reintroduce a more complex understanding of the state. The shift in understanding proposed in this body of work represents a displacement of the focus from the “moment of rupture” towards a more comprehensive role of the state in which we can capture its enabling role. Developing this perspective, the paper analyses Spanish company Repsol’s oil spill on the Peruvian coast and develops a detailed study of states involved in colonial crimes. Crucially, this paper presents this state–corporate crime as the outcome of a long series of decisions taken between Spain and Peru. The sale of the La Pampilla Refinery to Repsol by the Fujimori government allowed a colonial cycle of capital accumulation to intensify. This expansionist cycle by Spanish financial capital established the conditions that made the incident on the Peruvian shore possible. Overall, the paper describes those conditions in detail and argues that without considering this long-term political and economic interaction between Spanish capital and both states, state–corporate crimes cannot be fully understood. The notion of “colonial regime of permission” is proposed to capture the process of accumulation which enables wealth creation in Spain and the destruction of nature in Peru
Colonialism · Expansionism · Politics · Revenue · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Regulation and Compliance Studies · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
Spaces of Capital
The Corporate Criminal
State-corporate legal symbiosis and social harm
Marxism and Criminology
Crime, Punishment and Migration
The Pacification of Peru and the Production of a Neoliberal Populist Order
State-Corporate Environmental Cover-Up
Regimes of Permission and State-Corporate Crime
Marx and the Concept of a Social Formation
Obviously, we’re all oil industry”
Fujimorism and Peru
Latin America and the Theory of Imperialism
Regimes of Extreme Permission in Southeast Asia
Mapping the Pains of Neo-Colonialism
Coloniality of Power and Eurocentrism in Latin America
Sanitizing a crisis
State-Corporate Crime and the Process of Capital Accumulation
Southern Criminology
The autonomous power of the state
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |