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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"State Crime"”.
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New Directions in State Crime: A Queer Criminology Perspective
<p>While recent decades have seen an expansion of state crime literature, the scholarship has been slow to integrate new criminological perspectives. The field is aware of state-perpetrated harms committed against queer and gender non-conforming individuals, yet there are limited works that …
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Socialist State Crime and Transitional Justice in Germany, 1961-2005
… (Norbert Frei) with regard to Nazi crimes. Moreover, this dissertation examines how the criminal proceedings were ideologically shaped by Cold War confrontations, and how competing conceptions of illegality and state crime mirrored those ideological and historical contestations. In …
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A criminology of catastrophe: a critical analysis of imperialistic state crime and the Haiti earthquake
… natural disasters is aggravated by imperialistic state crimes, which predispose populations to conditions of vulnerability and dependency. I substantiate this argument with an analysis of Haiti and demonstrate how its history of imperialistic exploitation by the US amounted to a pattern of state …
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Justice Denied: Low Submission Rates of Sexual Assault Kits and The Predicting Variables
<p>The state of Utah has sexual assault rates consistently higher than the national average. Following sexual assaults, victims are advised to seek health care services with evidence collected and packaged in sexual assault kits (SAKs). This large (N=1,874), retrospective study examined rates of …
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CONTESTED TERRITORY: VIOLENCE, ORGANISED CRIME AND TERRITORIAL PRACTICES IN CONTEMPORARY HONDURAS
The relationship between organised crime and territory is a complex one, and one which affects extensively security dynamics. Especially in countries plagued by violence and insecurity, like Honduras, territory is strategically important for criminal actors, that usually seek to obtain territorial …
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Constructing Evil: U.S. Media Discourse and the Iranian State Murder of Neda Agha-Soltan
… one image became not only a symbol of unbridled state violence, but a rallying cry for a movement contesting the disputed election of hardline Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The particular image in question was of Neda Agha-Soltan, a 26 year old woman whose murder was recorded by …
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Violence, Causality, and the Emergence of Mexico's General Law on Forced Disappearance
… Ayotzinapa tragedy in 2014, which exposed the state-crime nexus and denotated an absolute political crisis for the regime of Enrique Peña Nieto. The case of the forty-three disappeared students received national and international attention as protests erupted throughout Mexico and abroad, and …