State And Mass Crime. Flashcards

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White said…

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That criminology has an anthropocentric bias.
We must instead entertain thinking about how a ‘crime’ may be more usefully viewed as an action with mass harm consequences, even if technically legal.

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Risk society theory is a theory by…

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Beck

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“Locked i…….

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“Locked into the risks”

The theory of the risk society - Beck.
Why do the people responsible for solving/mitigating the risks, not do that?

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Adorno’s theory of the …

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Authoritarian personality.

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The banality of evil is a theory by …

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Arendt

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Matza’s theory of n….

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Techniques of neutralisation

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‘McMafia’ theory, a study of what?
A term by who?

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Study of ‘gangster capitalism’ after the fall of the Soviet Union, the interaction between Soviet price control and the sudden introduction of the free market to the assets of the Union of Socialist republics.

Coined by Glenny

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