State Crime

Question 1

Green and Warde

Answer 1

Defines State crime as “illegal or deviant activities perpetrated by or with complicity of state agencies.

Question 2

McLaughlin
4 types of state crime

Answer 2

4 types of state crime:
Political
Security/ police officers
Economic
Social and Cultural

Question 3

Evidence of state crime

Answer 3

Cambodia- 1/5 entire population killed in 3yrs
Green and Warde- 262 million people killed by gov.

Question 4

Green and Warde (Integrated theory)

Answer 4

Street crimes and state crime = similar circumstances.
Motivation of offenders, opportunities to commit crimes, failures of control.

Question 5

Green and Warde (crimes of obedience)

Answer 5

torturers need to be re socialised / trained and exposed to propaganda about the enemy.
EXAMPLE- Abu Ghraib= Taken over by US and used as a military prison after fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime in 2003

Question 6

How is My Lai massacre an example of Obedience

Answer 6

Authorization- making it clear that individuals are acting with official policy.
Dehumanisation- regarded as sub human species.
Routinization- organisation of actions- part of regular routine

Question 7

Cohen

Answer 7

Spiral of Denial
Break Human rights laws =
it didn’t happen, If it did happen then it was something else, even if it is what it is its justified

Question 8

Matza

Answer 8

Techniques of Neutralisation

Denial of the victim, Denial of the injury, Denial of Responsibility, Condemning the Condemners, Appeal to Higher loyalty.