State crimes
- Created by: Harriet
- Created on: 07-06-13 13:02
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- State Crimes
- The scale of State Crime
- the states power enables it to commit extremely large scale crimes with widespread victimisation
- in Cambodia in 1970's the govt. killed 1/5 of the population
- can coceal its crime or evade punishment more easily
- The state defines the law so it can avoid defining its own harmful actions as criminal
- the states power enables it to commit extremely large scale crimes with widespread victimisation
- Human Rights and State Crime
- No universal list of human rights but most definitions include, natural rights and civil rights
- A right is an entitlement and protection against the state
- Herman and Schwendinger- we should define crime in terms of the violation of human rights, rather than breaking legal rules
- Therefore states that practice imperialism, racism or sexism, or inflict economic exploitation on its citizens are committing crimes
- State Crime and the culture of denial
- Cohen- States conceal and legitimate their human rights crimes
- Dictatorships-deny these crimes Democratic states have to legitimate their actions
- Neutralisation theory- stares deny or justify their crimes by... denial of the victim, denial of injury, denial of responsibility, condemning the condemners and appealing to higher loyalty
- Cohen- States conceal and legitimate their human rights crimes
- Green and Ward- state crime is 'illegal or deviant activity perpetrated by, or with the complicity of, state agencies'
- McLaughlin- political, economic, social/ cultural or crimes by security and police forces
- The scale of State Crime
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