State Crime

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Lulu Knowles

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  • Green and Ward 2012: state crime as ‘illegal or deviant activities perpetrated by, or with the complicity of state agencies’
  • State Crime is MASSIVE - Green and Ward 2012: 262 million people murdered by govts during the 20th century
  • Michalowski and Kraner 2006: ‘great power and great crimes are inseparable. Economic and political elites can bring death, disease and loss to tens of thousands with a single decision’
  • State is the Source of Law:
    States' role to define criminality, uphold law and prosecute offenders. A state's power can conceal its crimes, evade punishment and avoid defining its own actions.