Stae crime
- Created by: caraingham22
- Created on: 26-05-18 15:36
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- State crime
- Human rights
- Herman and schwendinger argued that violation of human rights should be the way state state crime should be defined
- Any action that violates human rights should be classes as crime if legal of not
- Therefore by this definition countries that deny women the vote should be seen as criminal
- Any action that violates human rights should be classes as crime if legal of not
- Two main catagories of human rights
- Civil rights: made by humans eg right to education, vote
- Natural rights: come from simply being a human eg right to live, being free
- Herman and schwendinger argued that violation of human rights should be the way state state crime should be defined
- States denial of the abuse of human rights
- The spiral of Denial- Cohen (3 stages)
- Stage 1: 'It didn't happen' State claims it didn't happen
- Stage 2: 'If it did happen 'it' was something else' The state says it was self defence instead of murder
- Stage 3: 'Even if it is what you say, it's justified' eg to fight the was or terror, if things are proven as they appear the state claims their actions were justified
- Neutralisation theory- Sykes and Matza
- Denial of injury: The state is the real victim, self defence
- Denial of victims: The target is not the victim, their behaviour is much worse than the states
- Denial of responsibility: They were acting on orders of somebody else/ doing their duty
- Condemnation of the condemners: Criticism is unfair, other states have committed worse crimes
- Appeal to higher loyalties: bigger reason for committing crime than personal gain, serving a higher cause
- Make their actions seem reasonable rather than deny them
- The spiral of Denial- Cohen (3 stages)
- Human rights
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