Domestic Law

• Chambliss 1989: state crime as ‘acts defined by law as criminal and committed by state officials in pursuit of their jobs as representatives of the state’ 
• BUT… using a state’s own domestic law to define state crime is inadequate as it ignores the fact that states have the power to make laws and thus can avoid criminalising their own actions. Furthermore, they can make laws, allowing them to carry out harmful acts. Nazi’s used law to permitt the compulsory sterilisation of the disabled.