01:920:222 Chapter Notes - Chapter Political crime: Political Repression, Political Crime, Corporate Crime
Document Summary
Political crime - any illegal or socially harmful act aimed at preserving or changing the existing political and social order. Crime by government (aka state crimes) - aims to preserve existing order and includes political repression and human rights violations (genocide, torture, assassination), unethical or illegal experimentation, aiding and abetting of corporate crime, and political corruption. State corporate crime - represents the intersection of corporate crime and crime by government. Crime against government - aims to change existing order and includes terrorism and other political violence, nonviolent civil disobedience, espionage and treason. Civil disobedience - the violation of law for reasons of conscience and is usually nonviolent and public. Treason - aiding and abetting of a country"s enemy by putting the country at risk. Political repression is often found in totalitarian societies, but can be found in democracies as well. U. s. government have also took part in unethical experimentation involving radiation and syphilis.