State Crime Flashcards

Question

What is the definition of zemiology

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The study of harms

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Focuses on protecting people from harm States cannot 'delabel' their own behaviours as unharmful - preventing them from concealing their crimes

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Harm is subjective and not as clear cut for a definition - who is to decide the definition Hard to enforce e.g FGM beliefs are accepted in certain areas and deemed harmful in others

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An act is a crime if the audience define it as one, sociologists should not impose theor own definitions. What people view as a state crime can vary depending over time/place/culture

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Allows for the law to stay up to date with changing social norms and morals Recognises the social construction of crime and prevents sociologists from imposing a definition

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Hard to enforce if people have different opinions Who defines it? Audiences definiton may be manipulated by media and those in power - marxists woud agree

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State crime is wen something violates international law such as treaties between countries

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Uses global agreed definitions of crime rather than personal definitions of harm - applied to crimes committed globally

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Law is socially constructed and made by those in power to benefit themselves Only tends to focus on war crime and ignore other state crimes such as corruption

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State crimes are those that violate basic human rights. This incldes natural rights (that people have through existing - the right to life) and civil rights (right to vote etc)

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Human rights have become a norm - holds states to account and encourages conformity as failure to do so can result in shame

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Some crimes do not violate human right - economic Lack of consensus - not all countries agree on human rights

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The Rwanda Policy: 2018 incident - Rwandan police opend fire on protesting refugees killing at least 11, ECHR ruled it unlawful but government tried to pass a law to bypass this

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The authoritarian personality: Willingness to obey orders of superiors without question Personality was very common in Nazi Germany because socialisation pattens of time which involves disciplinarian punitive measures Hierarchy: -may trust them - or fearful of punishment

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Milgrams study - shows we are willing to inflict harm because an authority figure says so

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State crime requires obediance to a higher authority Happens through re-socialisation

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Citezens are persuaded their duty to obey authority replaces moral principles

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Abuse becomes a normal part of a days work - to premote detatchment

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'enermy' portrayed as sub-human so moral principles do not apply - done through propoganda

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Conditions of a modern society madeit easier for the Holocaust to happen

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These are the things that made the holocaust easier to occur due to a modern society: Division of labour Intrumental rationality Bureaucratisation Science and technology

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Each person is responsible for one small task, so no one felt personally responsible

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Effecient methods are used to reach a goal, regardless of what it is

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State normalises killing by making it a routine, repetitive approved job

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we have conditions to make killing people easier - railways to transport people to concentration camps

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These aspects did make it easier but it was the racist Nazi Germany ideology people were socialised into in order to carry it out which had the biggest impact

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My Lai Massacre - mass killing of unarmed Vietnamese civilians and soldiers followed order from superiors to kill

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How the state respons when state crime is revealed: Gov have to hide crimes to due increase in organisations that hold state accountable 3 stages

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1) Denial of everything and claim nothing is happening but Human rights organisations and Vs show it did 2) State re-label it as something else than human rights abuse 3) Justifying what happened 'for a greater cause'

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May make other people think it is acceptable In globalised world - shame from other countries

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The state make actions seem fine for the situation but not in the normal circumstances

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Denial of victim - deny the enermy is a V Denial of injury - 'we are the real Vs not them' Denial of responsibility - ' I am only obeying orders' Condeming the condemners - accusing the accusers of being hypocrits or worse Appeal to higher loyality - self-righteous justification claiming to serve a higher cause

State Crime Flashcards

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