Explanations of State crime
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- Explanations on State crime and Human Abuses
- Cohen's work explains why state crimes involve abuses of human rights is possible even in societies where it is immoral
- Chambliss argues that sociologist should investigate state organised crime as well as Capitalist crime
- Green and Ward
- The Obedience Theory
- Its not rule breaking but conformity which explains state crime
- Authorisation
- Individuals act in accordance with state policy and the state supports action
- Dehumanisation
- State promotes a single cultural identity based on marginalisation of minorities
- Routinisation
- Illegal crimes become part of a routine (they are normalised)
- Authorisation
- Violent states encourage obedience by those who carry out state-backed human right abuses like genocide
- Its not rule breaking but conformity which explains state crime
- Integrated Theory
- State crimes arise from similar reasons to conventional crimes (street)
- a motive
- the opportunity to commit
- failure of controls that may prevent it from happening
- State crimes arise from similar reasons to conventional crimes (street)
- The Obedience Theory
- Criticism
- However state crimes cannot just be explained in terms of individual motivation
- Structural factors to do with how the state and political parties work are also important
- Cohen's work explains why state crimes involve abuses of human rights is possible even in societies where it is immoral
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