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Dec 9, 2016 · Types of State Crime. McLaughlin (2001) identifies four categories of state crime: • Crimes by security forces – e.g. genocide, torture, imprisonment without trial and disappearance of dissidents. • Political Crimes – e.g. censorship or corruption. • Economic crimes – e.g. violation of health and safety laws.
Aug 7, 2018 · State crimes include (but are not restricted to): Corruption Discrimination Funding terrorism Funding organised crime; War crimes; Torture; Assassination; Genocide; Eugene McLaughlin (2001) divided these into four types of state crime: crimes by the security and police forces; economic crimes; social and cultural crimes (like institutional ...
Dec 19, 2016 · A Dependency Theorist (Marxist) Perspective on State Crime. From a Dependency point of view state crimes are not limited to developing countries. For a start, two of the greatest crimes in the history of humanity – Colonialism, which was basically the organised theft of resources through violence conquest, and slavery, were both a key part of ...
Jan 7, 2020 · The field of state crime is, relatively speaking, one of the newer areas of research under the umbrella of white-collar crime (i.e., occupational crime or corporate crime), beginning in 1989 with Chambliss’s presidential speech at the American Society of Criminology conference, where he made a call to criminologists to pay attention to state-organized crime.
- Dawn L. Rothe
- 2020
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Jun 24, 2020 · State crime: Governments, violence and corruption. London: Pluto. Provides an overview of the nature and types of state crime. Becker-influenced audience-based definition is central. Suggests that state acts are criminal when social audiences define them as such.
Oct 25, 2007 · Examples include a state’s complicity in piracy, smuggling, assassinations, criminal conspiracies, acting as an accessory before the fact, and violating laws that limit their activities... state-organized crime does not include criminal acts that benefit only individual officeholders, such as the acceptance of bribes or the illegal use of ...
We begin by discussing legal pluralism and illustrating it by some examples from our research, then move on to consider what is meant by a dialectical approach. Finally, we discuss how the pluralist and dialectical approaches can be combined in analysing civil society resistance to state crime.
