State Crime

Question 1

what is zeminology

Answer 1

means harm

Question 2

what is harmful but not illegal

Answer 2

smoking
alcohol
animal abuse
eviction 
holocaust
extreme views
deforestation

Question 3

Green and Ward

Answer 3

define state crime as illegal or deviant activities (assassination)

Question 4

Eugene McLaughlin- 4 categories of state crime

Answer 4

political crimes- corruption
crimes by security- police forces, torture
economic crimes- health and safety laws
social and cultural- racism

Question 5

integrating theory factors

Answer 5

motivations of offenders
opportunities to commit crimes
failures of control

Question 6

Kelman and Hamilton

Answer 6

‘crimes of obedience’. eg. My Lai in Vietnam, platoons of American soldiers massacred 400 civilians

Question 7

3 features that provide ‘crimes of obedience’

Answer 7

authorisation- acts ordered by authority, normal moral principles replaced by duty to obey
Routinisation- once crime is committed strong pressures turn into act of routine.
Dehumanisation- enemy is portrayed as subhuman described as animals and monsters

Question 8

tombs and whyte

Answer 8

states can use their power to prevent or hinder sociologists doing research

Question 9

Greene and ward

Answer 9

research can be difficult, dangerous law can control and persecute researchers.

Question 10

Stanley Cohen

Answer 10

culture of denial-
it didn’t happen
it did happen but it was something else
it was justified anyway