STATE CRIME

“State Crime: Government, Violence and Corruption”

“State Crime: Government, Violence and Corruption”

Introduction

In this book “State Crime: Government, violence and corruption”, Ward and Green (2004), identifies state crime in the structure of organizational deviance that includes violation of human rights and is facilitated/committed by proto-states and sovereign in order to fulfil the goals of an organization. Provided that there is nothing distinctive regarding this conceptualization of the state crime, one might primarily observe the work as introductory text, standard, with a number of interesting topics to discover but requires a bit of depth. Just as the unfolding of the account is seen, yet Green and Ward change this opinion. Though they are emphasizing the relationship among the organizational means and political economy selection, focus is even skilfully directed towards an integrated theoretical framework that includes social psychological factors. The major argument, accurately demonstrated within an examination of a number of state crimes, is that none of the state is resistant from the violation of human rights in order to achieve the goals.

It has also been argued that the kind of crime instrumentally chosen is strongly influenced by the structural situations. In this book the author starts by discussing the two detailed concepts and corruption, patrimonialism and clientelism. Clientelism is linked with an exchange system whereby public officials or patrons offer political favours to constituents/clients. Green and Ward highlight that clientelism effectively and commonly operate along with the bureaucratic government, and it is also capable of serving like a gateway towards clandestine exchange that would result in the violation of human rights. Police crime, State-organized crime, State-corporate crime and different deviant behaviours might accompany clientelism. However state violence are capable of suffering in countries that are operating under the clientelism, that frequently governed consent, holding this kind of deviance unnecessary. ...