State Crime

• What is the definition of state crime that Green and ward (2005) provides?

  The illegal or deviant activites perpertrated by or on behalf the complicity of state agencies
• What is Schwendinger's definition of state crime?

  All human rights violation and groups denied the same oppotunites as others should be illegal
• WHat are the problems with defining state crime?

  The states themselves defines what a law is and has the power to avoid defining their own acts as criminal

  States have the power to coneal and justify state crimes
• What are some examples of state crime?

  Torture and illegal treatment or punishment of citizens

  Corruption

  Assassination

  War crimes

  Genocide

  State-sponsored terrorism
• What are human rights?

  Everyone is entitled to the same fair and just treatment wherever they may be in the world
• What does Green and ward say about human rights?


  They have become global social norms
• What is the scale of green crimes?

  Large-scale crimes are possible due to widespread victimisation due to the power of the state, however many of it goes unreported due to this power and different national boundaries
• What are the two main explanation to state crime?

  Intergrated theory = crime arises from similar circumstances to those of other crimes

  Obediance model = crime is committed due to conformity to rules
• What elements are consisted within the obediance model?

  Authorisation

  Dehumanisation

  Routinisation
• What are the problems with measuring state crime?

  Difficult to find the true extent due to strategies of denial or justification

  It is an ideological construct and ideological relativity

  State secrecy makes it difficult to see the extent of state crimes

  Reliant upon secondary data
• What is the technique of neutralisation according to Cohen?

  States can deny having committing green crime by neutralising their crimes by re-labelling them as something else or as regretable but justifiable