ACR101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Bloody Sunday Inquiry, Mass Surveillance, United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees
WEEK 9: State Crime
Outline:
- Recognize that state can behave in criminal ways, breaking their own laws as well as
international laws
- Identify a range of behaviors that are considered state crimes
- Recognize difficulties in defining state crime
- Identify obstacles to prosecuting states and enforcing international justice
- Nation state, we rely on this to give us protection and justice
Types of state crimes
- White collar crime
- Violent crime (abuse in prison or custody, police power- African americans and the police
brutality)
- Environmental crime
- Cyber crime
- War crimes
oTorture
oSummary execution
- Crimes against humanity
oGenocide
- May be done by omission or commission (are individuals responsible or is it the government)
Case study: ‘Bloody Sunday’
- Derry northern Ireland, 1972
- Protest against the use of ‘internment’- imprisonment-without-trial – of Catholics suspected
of being IRA
- 14 fatalities
- Misuse of force and power
- Scale of harm
- Dual role of government as law enforcers
What ‘bloody Sunday’ tells us about state crime
- States can commit horrific and brutal acts
- Limited legal options for victims and victim families
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