State Crime

Question 1

Guantanamo bay

Answer 1

Prisoners not given trial and human rights stripped, also tortured.

Question 2

How many people murdered by the govt in 20th century

Answer 2

262 million apparently

Question 3

Mclaughlin

Answer 3

4 categories of state crime -

• political (corruption)
• social and cultural (institutional racism)
• economic
• crimes by force (police)

Question 4

Example of a state crime

Answer 4

NASA Challenger Crash, caused by cost cutting, 7 dead

Question 5

2 kinds of war crimes

Answer 5

• illegal wars

- crimes committed during war

Question 6

Skyes and matza

Cohen

Answer 6

Culture of denial -
Govt
- didnt happen (state claim didnt happen)
- if it did, it wasn’t because of that (self defence not murder)
- even if it did, it’s justified (war on terror)

Cohen - states now must try hard to conceal their crimes