Why is state crime hard to measure

Question 1

Techniques

Answer 1

The state uses techniques of neutralisation to redefine their actions, strageries to create apathy/ unawareness in public

Question 2

Denial of victim

Answer 2

implying the harmed partly deserved what happened to them e.g. using torture on terror suspects

Question 3

Denial of responsibility

Answer 3

Those who commit the atrocity state they were just ‘ following the orders ‘ e.g. police/ army officers

Question 4

Condem the condemners

Answer 4

The state criticises their critics for being unpatriotic: divide + rule - turns pro/anti gov people on each other

Question 5

Appeal to higher loyalty

Answer 5

The state persuades the population that the actions were necessary for the greater good

Question 6

The cultural of denial

Answer 6

1. The event did not happen - outright denial, before evidence emerges
2. The event is being misunderstood - some evidence emerges but validity is questioned
3. The event is justified - too much evidence to deny any further