State Crime Flashcards
1
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Def: state crime
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State crime is ‘illegal or deviant activities perpetrated by, or with the complicity of, state agencies’. (Green and Ward (2003)).
This includes:
- genocide
- war crimes
- torture
- imprisonment without trial
- assassination
2
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Def: 4 categories of state crime
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Political crimes, e.g. censorship and corruption
Crimes by security and police forces, e.g. genocide, torture, disappearance of dissidents
Economic crimes, e.g. violations of health and safety laws
Social and cultural crimes, e.g. institutional racism
(McLaughlin (2001))
3
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Countries with heavy censorship
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North Korea
China
Turkey
Syria (pre-Arab Spring)
4
Q
Examples of state health and safety violations
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HIV blood transfusions
Asbestos in schools
5
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Genocides
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Rwanda, 1994
Bosnia, 1995
Cambodia, 1975
Holocaust
