problems w state crime Flashcards
what are the issues w defining state crime?
-issues who defines what state crime is
-controversy over what state crime is
-state have control over their rules
-power to avoid labelling their actions as criminal e.g persecution of the jews in nazi germany wasent illegal under german law at the time
-state has the power to justify and decriminalise their actions
problems w researching/measuring state crime?
-COHEN= gov doubt strategies of denial to deny/justify the crimes (china deny camps)
-stats changed/covered by the state
-in dictatorships, researchers can be subject to threats, imprisonment
-media tends to focus on crimes in developing countries, rarely UK or US.
who are the victims of crime
-groups who lack power in the country or society that they live in
