(Domestic Law) 'acts defined by laws as criminal and are committed by state officials in pursuit of jobs as representatives of the state
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Michalonski
(Social harm and zemiology) acts 'legally permissible whose consequences are similar to those of illegal acts'
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Hillyard
We should study crimes with zemiology. The study of harms rather than through the law.
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Rothe and Mullins
Any action on behalf of a state that violates international law and or a states own domestic law
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Schwendingers
Definition of crime is inevitably political. They argue that a sociologists role is to defend human rights if necessary against the state laws
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Green and Ward
Human and rights involve a wider package of basic social and economic rights by the state as subsistence as well as civil and political rights such as free speech.
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Herman and Julia Schwendinger
We should define state crime as a violation of peoples basic human rights by the state or its agents. E.g. States that practice racism and economic exploitation are committing crimes.
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(Social harm and zemiology) acts 'legally permissible whose consequences are similar to those of illegal acts'
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Michalonski
Card 3
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We should study crimes with zemiology. The study of harms rather than through the law.
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Card 4
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Any action on behalf of a state that violates international law and or a states own domestic law
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Card 5
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Definition of crime is inevitably political. They argue that a sociologists role is to defend human rights if necessary against the state laws
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