State criem Flashcards
1
Q
What is state crime?
A
Crimes committed by/on behalf of states and governments in order to further their polices.
2
Q
What are examples of state crime?
A
- Genocide
- War crimes
3
Q
Who identified the ‘serial of denial’?
A
Cohen.
4
Q
What does Herman and Schwendinger argue?
A
That we should define crime in terms on the violation of basic human rights, rather than breaking legal rules.
5
Q
What is the ‘spiral of denial’?
A
The way states hide and legitimate their human rights crimes.
6
Q
What are the stages in the ‘serial of denial’?
A
- Denial of victim (‘they were terrorists).
- Denial of injury (‘they started it’).
- Denial of responsibility (‘I was only doing my duty’).
- Condemning the condemners (‘It’s worse elsewhere’).
- Appeal to higher loyalty.
7
Q
What does Adorno argue?
A
Authoritarian personality which individuals follow orders of superiors without question, explaning why law-abiding citizens committed awful acts.
- EXAMPLE: Nazi Germany.
