Sociology 3357F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: White-Collar Crime, Environmental Crime, Totalitarianism
3 Jun 2015
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Difficult to gain access to/study the politically powerful. The forms of harm and law breaking perpetrated by the state/government officials are complex. Its difficult to define it as a crime. Most people are resistant to regarding states/government officials as criminals. Governmental criminality of a epic scale: anarchism: the state is a criminal enterprise, the entire government needs to be abolished, conquests and state-sanctioned wars are governmental crimes of extraordinary scope, the state has become the***, most war cr. Vietnam war think about this as essay topics: the u. s engagement in the nam war was illegal under u. s law; congress never specifically declared war, a requirement of the constitution. It has proven difficult to bring perpetrators of genocide/ ethnic cleansing to justice: the u. s was one of the few countries unwilling to endorse the establishment of a permanent. International criminal court to bring perpetrators of state crime to justice: also not a participant in the international court of justice (un)
