State Crime and Human Rights
- Created by: hannahmoore
- Created on: 13-05-15 12:09
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- Human Rights and State Crime
- Illegal activities carried out by agents of the state
- Examples? Genocide, torture, assassination, terrorism
- McLaughlin- censorship and institutional racism are state crimes
- Schwendinger- Breaking human rights is a state offence
- If groups are denied opportunities due to race, sex or sexuality this is a result of human rights broken
- State crime is committed by the powerful, measuring is difficult
- The powerful can impose their views on society
- Cohen- economic exploitation is notcriminal and doesn't obviously break a human riight
- State uses techniques of neutralisation to justify their crimes
- Many state crimes are crimes of obedience
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