state crime

• green + ward

  • breaking international laws
• types of state crime

  • violence against own people eg genocide
  • violence from other nations eg invasion
  • political crime eg detaining
  • economic crime eg bribery
• adorno et al

  • authoritan personality
  • willingness to deny orders without question
• hamilton

  • crimes of obediance
  • socialisation desensitises to harm
  • authoritisation, routinisation, dehumanisation
• bauman

  • modernity
  • beaurocratisation
  • routine jobs
  • killing units
• cohen

  • culture of denial
  • human rights movements put pressure on states
  • didnt happen, not their fault, justified
• cohen II

  • techniques of neutralisation
  • deny victim
  • deny injury
  • deny responsibility
  • condemn condemners
  • appeal to higher loyalty