Aufsatz(gedruckt)#12000
State crime, human rights, and the limits of criminology
In: Social justice: a journal of crime, conflict and world order, Band 27, Heft 1
ISSN: 1043-1578, 0094-7571
Suggests how criminology can remedy its neglect of the phenomenon of state crime, without adopting such a broad definition of crime as to destroy the coherence of criminology as a distinct field. Employs as examples the Anglo-American and Turkish state traditions in an attempt to establish a continuum that incorporates authoritarian and democratic state formations. (Original abstract - amended)