Seeing War as Criminal: Peace Activist Views and Critical Criminology

Kauzlarich, David

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“…iv) It should be noted that even a legal-oriented perspective can be used to contest the harm committed on behalf of the state. The strategic use of the notion of state crime within criminology is a clear example of such an attempt (e.g., Barak, 1990Barak, , 1991Barak, , 2010Kauzlarich, 2007;Matthews & Kauzlarich, 2007). Once every state can be seen as a 'juridical person', they can be made responsible for violations of domestic and international laws (Chambliss, 1989).…”

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Police officers’ perspectives on state (police) violence: A sociomoral and psychological-driven study on disengagement

Soares

Barbosa

Matos

2018

J. Soc. Polit. Psych.

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This paper comprises a theoretical and empirical incursion into the phenomenon of state violence, namely police violence. Although extensively explored in different perspectives within and outside academia, police violence is complex and has not been sufficiently problematized yet. In our understanding, this phenomenon requires a dialectical and dynamic discussion wherein both the development of state powers (macro-perspective) and how these powers affect the subjectification of those who act on their behalf (micro-perspective) are articulated into a critical analysis. In more concrete terms, the present study contributes to such analysis by shedding light on the main processes of moral disengagement (cf. Bandura, 1990, 1999, 2004) disclosed in the internal perspectives of six Portuguese police officers about common daily work-related situations. To legitimize the resort to police violence, police officers rely heavily on different mechanisms of moral disengagement. For instance, sanitizing language (anchored in a police technical jargon) is typically used as a linguistic mechanism to disguise violent actions; advantageous comparisons with other law enforcement agencies or with the recipient’s conduct are typically employed; non-lethal violence is usually minimized and portrayed as innocuous; and the recipient of violence is usually dehumanised and seen as responsible for the acts of violence. The findings are discussed based on the moral disengagement theory (Bandura, 1990, 1999, 2004); on the denial approach (Cohen, 2001, 2003); and on the impact of organizational, legal and socio-cultural dimensions of police organization (e.g., Fassin, 2011; Huggins, Haritos-Fatouros, & Zimbardo, 2002).

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Police officers’ perspectives on state (police) violence: A sociomoral and psychological-driven study on disengagement

Soares

Barbosa

Matos

2018

J. Soc. Polit. Psych.

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“…Uncovering the historical origins of the symbiotic relationship between the federal government and US corporations may elucidate the causal mechanisms leading to the creation of the corporate-state and the cancer mortality crisis in public health both within the developed and developing world (Hodgson & Jiang, 2007;Jamieson & McEvoy, 2005;Jorgenson, 2006;Kauzlarich, 2007;Kramer & Michalowski, 2005;Michalowski, 2000;Neier, 2003;Stokes, 2006;Tilly, 2003, chap. 5).…”

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Environmental pollution: corporate crime and cancer mortality

Katz

2012

Contemporary Justice Review

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“…Case in point, interviews with Hurricane Katrina survivors suggest that many regard themselves as victims of state negligence, but it is unclear whether this sentiment is shared by social scientists, those in the polity, or in the general public (Faust and Kauzlarich 2008;Kauzlarich 2007). Outsider and insider definitions of state crime do not need to be mutually exclusive in the conventional sense, and the extent to which these definitions differ or corroborate should be a major agenda item for future research on state crime.…”

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That Was Then, This Is Now, What About Tomorrow? Future Directions in State Crime Studies

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Research and theorizing on state crime has come to play an important role in the fields of criminology and criminal justice for understanding the worst of crimes: those of powerful state agencies and agents. Since William Chambliss' (1989) ASC presidential address, scholars of state crime have made advances in theoretical modeling and analyzing core enactment and etiological factors of crimes of the state (e.g.

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Seeing War as Criminal: Peace Activist Views and Critical Criminology

Cited by 13 publications

References 11 publications

Police officers’ perspectives on state (police) violence: A sociomoral and psychological-driven study on disengagement

Police officers’ perspectives on state (police) violence: A sociomoral and psychological-driven study on disengagement

Environmental pollution: corporate crime and cancer mortality

That Was Then, This Is Now, What About Tomorrow? Future Directions in State Crime Studies

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