State crime

Question 1

State Crime definition

Answer 1

illegal or deviant activities perpetrated by state agencies (police, army, government)

Question 2

Types of state crime offences

Answer 2

-war crimes
-torture
-imprisonment without trial
-political crimes

Question 3

Victims of state crimes

Answer 3

-citizens of the state/ another state that they are offending against
-often members of minorities

Question 4

Offenders of state crime

Answer 4

-state officials
-politicians
-civil servants
-militias
-government supporters acting with encouragement of the state

Question 5

Level of awareness of state crime

Answer 5

-the scale of these are often huge so public are likely to be aware of them
-however states have power to conceal their crimes through censorship or making laws to justify them

Question 6

State crime- deviant/criminal

Answer 6

-acts like war crimes, genocide, torture and police brutality are deviant and in most cases criminal
-but states make their own laws so can define it as legal