state crime Flashcards
mclaughlin
-political crimes (corruption)
-crimes by security +police( genocide,torture)
-economic crimes (health +saftey laws)
-social+cultural crime(institutional crime)
michalowski
-state crimes not just illegal but legally permissible acts are similar to those of illegal acts
AO3 of michalowski
-critics argue the term harm is defined vaguley and what must occur before an act is defined a crime
schwendinger
-argue we should define state crime as the violation of peoples basic human right by the state
-states commit crime to deny people there basic right
AO3 of schwendinger
cohen
-gross violations such as torture are clearly crimes
-other acts such as economic explotation are not self evidently criminal even if morally unacceptable