State Crime Flashcards
1
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Define state crime
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Criminologists Green and Wars define state crime as illegal or deviant activities perpetrated by state agencies or crimes by other individuals/groups working on behalf of state agencies.
2
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What is the state?
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The state involves the political organisation of a country and the government and all its organisations.
3
Q
Give 6 examples of state crime
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- Genocide
- Torture to extract confessions or information from prisoners
- Police brutality
- Imprisonment without trial of political opponents
- war crimes
- political crimes such as election rigging and corruption
4
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Define genocide
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The extermination of entire national, ethnic, racial or religious groups
5
Q
Offenders of state crime
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- state officials like politions, civil servants, police officers and security forces
- militas and government supporters acting with the encouragement/backing of the state
- ordinary soldiers
- civilians
6
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Victims of state crime
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- citizens of the state in question or of another state that has been subject to aggression or occupation by a foreign state
- members of a religious or ethnic minority
- political opponents of the government
