crime + deviance: state crime

Question 1

what is state Crime?

Answer 1

illegal or deviant activities perpetuated by, or with complicity of state agencies

Question 2

what are the 2 main reasons state crime is so serious?

Answer 2

• the scale of the time
• the state is the source of law

Question 3

what did Green and Ward find about the scale of crime?

Answer 3

262 million people were killed by government during the 20th century

Question 4

what do Michalowski + Klamer note?

Answer 4

‘great power and great crimes are inseperable’
Economic and political elites can bring death, disease + loss to tens of thousands

Question 5

why does the state being a source of law make state crime so serious?

Answer 5

as the state has the power to make laws, it also has the power to conceal its crimes, evade punishment and avoid defining its own actions criminal

Question 6

what is genocide?

Answer 6

acts committed with intent to destroy in whole or in part of a national, ethnic, racial or religious group

Question 7

what is state-corporate crime?

Answer 7

state crimes committed in conjunction with corporate crimes

Question 8

what’s an example of state-initiated corporate crime?

Answer 8

‘Challenger space shuttle disaster’
challenger had risky + cost-cutting decisions made by state agencies + corporate companies which led to an explosion that killed 7 astronauts

Question 9

what’s an example of state-facilitated corporate crime?

Answer 9

‘Deepwater horizon oil rig disaster’
in the Gulf of Mexico. the rig exploded + sank killing 11 workers
this was when states fail to regulate + control corporate behaviour making crime easier