AC1.1-State crime
- Created by: zara vyas
- Created on: 02-12-22 19:38
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- AC1.1- State crimes
- human rights
- definition: crimes and illegal doings committed by the state/ government or by a group representing them
- victims: citizens and even outsiders that oppose the views and political beliefs of the government/ state
- offenders: state officials, politicians, police officers
- victims: 65% uk ethnic minorities say the police are bias against them
- criminal offences: war crimes, discrimination, corruption, human rights violations, genocide etc
- level of public awareness: very high as they get high media coverage and are very exposed however some countries are good at hiding their crimes
- both criminal and deviant
- laws: although most countries make their own laws there is international laws that make committing war crimes and mass genocide and human rights violations illegal and punishable actions
- RLE: Armenian genocide 1915-17 - 90% Armenians in the Ottoman empire killed by the Committee of Union and Progress led by the young Turks
- unreported: fear, lack of knowledge, complexity
- unreported: 55% of deaths that occurred due to police brutality in the US go unreported
- human rights
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